It’s time to get your days booked for the March and April Cowlitz River hatchery Steelhead run. We should have great fishing by the first week of March. Last year this Steelhead run went through April. Right now I’m fishing the Chehalis River for a mix of hatchery and wild fish, like the one in [...]
Columbia and Cowlitz River Salmon & Steelhead Fishing Guide
Winter Steelhead Fishing
Winter Chinook And Early Return Of Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 11/08/2012
Hope everyone is doing well. I have some great news, we have Winter Chinook in the North Fork of the Lewis River. This run starts now and goes through the first week of Dec. The great thing is we can keep wild and hatchery Chinook with a 2 fish limit. Also the Cowlitz [...]
Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 2/11/2012
Hey everyone its time to start fishing for the February-March B run Steelhead in the Cowlitz River. These two photos are the fish we caught last Saturday afternoon (2-11-2012). From what I am seeing its going to a great season. These fish should run from now thru mid April, with good size. The ocean conditions [...]
Late Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 3/27/2011
Hey Guys, we are still catching lots of Steelhead, and there are a few Springers starting to show. But very few because the Columbia is still high and cold. Every one fishing it says it sucks! I figure around April 20th we should see some numbers of Springers showing. I have a couple days in [...]
Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 2/20/2011
Hey Guys, I’m still fishing the smaller fisheries in the drift boat. We’re catching some beautiful fish and one of my fisheries right now has a broodstock program that this winter Steelhead came from. It’s working well as we have been getting 3 to 7 fish a day. The Cowlitz River is starting to turn [...]
Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 1/11/2011
We are starting to see some good winter run Steelhead fishing. This early part of the 2011 season we will be drift boat fishing the Wynoochee and Kalama Rivers. Drift boat fishing is great fun and very peaceful. I have two other drift boat guides working with me for larger groups, so let’s go fishing. [...]
Cowlitz River Late Winter Steelhead Chinook Fishing Guide Report – 3/20/2010
We fished once again on the Cowlitz River on Saturday March 20th. The fish were biting well and we hooked 5 nice Steelhead but no Chinook Salmon was to be found. There were more people on the river this day then I had seen in a long while. Out of the five-hooked Steelhead, we could [...]
Cowlitz River Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 3/10/2010
Last week I had 3 guys who have been friends for over 30 years fish for 2 days on the Cowlitz River for winter run Steelhead. My clients for this Cowlitz River winter Steelhead fishing trip were Walt from Nevada, Pat from Oregon and Oliver from Illinois. On Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 we were on [...]
Cowlitz River Chehalis River Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 2/28/2010
Sunday, February 21st we fished the Chehalis river since the reports of fish caught were low on the Cowlitz river. The morning started off slow, but we did see a Steelhead caught in the school house hole, so we started to work our way down river. This is prime time for hatchery Steelhead here on [...]
Cowlitz River Chehalis River Winter Steelhead Fishing Guide Report – 1/30/2010
We are off at 6am to fish the Chehalis River, near Centralia, WA. As we drift downstream of the put in, I get a strike almost immediately. We are all awake now with the possibility of hot action right from the start, another rod gets a strike, the adrenaline is starting to pump. We are [...]