Cowlitz River Fishing Report Lots of boats on the river right now with a few steelhead being caught here and there. Fishing beads has been working fairly well for allot of the guys out the now. Seems like the…
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Cowlitz Fishing Report Last week, Tacoma Power employees recovered 174 winter-run steelhead adults during five days of operations at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator. During the past week, Tacoma Power released four winter-run steelhead adults into the Cispus…
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Photo courtesy of Horker Soft Baits maker of the ultimate salmon and steelhead beads Monster Chomps Soft Fishing Beads October 15, 2020 Fall Chinook retention opens on the Cowlitz River Action: Opens retention of hatchery fall Chinook….
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Cowlitz River Fishing Report There are still some decent steelhead fishing opportunities to be had on the Cowlitz right now and a couple of springers have started to show up as well. While I was scoping out the scene,…
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WDFW FISHING RULE CHANGE Chinook salmon retention to close on the lower Cowlitz River Action: Chinook salmon retention closes on the lower Cowlitz River and tributaries (except the Toutle River). Effective dates: Sept. 22, 2018 until further notice. …
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WDFW FISHING RULE CHANGE Chinook salmon retention to close July 3 on Cowlitz River Action: Chinook salmon retention closes on the Cowlitz and Cispus rivers and in Lake Scanewa. Effective dates: July 3 through July 31, 2018. Species…
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Cowlitz River Spring Chinook Fishing The spring Chinook fishing on the Cowlitz River has been pretty good to fair over the last couple weeks. There were also a few steelhead being caught as well. We are getting reports of…
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OLYMPIA – For the first time in five years, the Cowlitz River will not open to smelt dipping. A commercial test fishery conducted last month in the Columbia River showed that area smelt abundance is too low to warrant…
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Tacoma power is reporting that they have recovered 806 Columbia River spring Chinook adults, 52 spring Chinook jacks, three winter-run steelhead adults, one winter-run steelhead jack , 20 summer-run steelhead adults and nine cutthroat trout in four days of…
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04/14/2017 – J. W. Snyder – Fishing The Cowlitz 2017 Cowlitz River Fishing Report: This past week Tacoma power has dropped the water and there are still good numbers of winter steelhead and decent numbers of Spring Chinook as…
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