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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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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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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04/05/2017 – J. W. Snyder – Fishing The Cowlitz 2017 Cowlitz River Fishing Report: The water on the Cowlitz is high and green right now with about 3 feet of visibility, there are decent numbers of winter steelhead by…
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01/08/2017 – J. W. Snyder – Fishing The Cowlitz 2017 Cowlitz River Fishing Report: There was a small push of steelies that had come in earlier this week but with the cold temps the water plummeted and turned gin clear….
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10/22/2016 – J. W. Snyder – Fishing The Cowlitz 2016 Cowlitz River Fishing Report: The Cowlitz has been offering up some good numbers of Coho and the bite has been pretty decent up at the barrier dam. Drifting eggs,…
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02/18/2016 – J. W. Snyder – Fishing The Cowlitz Cowlitz River Fishing Report: The average flow was 12,000 cfm, more steelhead are being caught from Blue Creek to Salmon Hatchery, Many people ask us why are the steelhead…
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01/05/2016 – J. W. Snyder – Fish The Cowitz Cowlitz River Fishing Report The Cowlitz has been very slow with a occasionally steelhead caught, The river color is still off color after heavy rains a few weeks back…
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12/03/2015 Cowlitz River Fishing Report The Cowlitz river has been high and dirty. I believe the lakes have turned over because there is a lot of color in the water right now. Spring salmon fishing guides have…
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