Oxcamp

I am glad that YOU did well fishing on the lower Cowlitz. How low were you fishing in the Cowlitz? All the boat fishermen that pasted below the "mission boat ramp" yesterday that I asked thought that fishing was pretty darn sad!

Now if you were fishing in what some people refer to as the lower Cowlitz (the area below the Toutle River) you may have certainly done pretty well. If that was the case, most likely you were enjoying the benefits of the steelhead that were headed for either the South Fork or North Fork of the Toutle River. I would be surprised if they were lining up for the "big run" on the Cowlitz. Normally the area below the Toutle is not very fishable by either boat or bank at this time of the year. This is the first year in over 15 years that I can remember it being clear and this low at this time of the year. Most of the time it is running well over 15,000 cfs and is totally blown out below the confluence of the Cowlitz and Toutle River for fishing.

I guest that you felt that I was putting some kind of a heavy burden on you because I gave you an accurate factual reason why steelhead fishing has been so darn slow on the Cowlitz. I can understand a guide being upset with my posting, but that does not include you, right…or does it?

People on this board expect to have true and accurate reports about fishing conditions and be given the opportunity to know what factual information may be available to them to make up their own minds. If you disagree with what I have posted, then please explain why. When a fishermen, or member of this board drives a hundred miles or so and spends a $50-100 dollars expecting to see fishing like it used to be on the Cowlitz on Thanks giving day, and don't fine it that way, they deserve to know what is really going on!

Robert Allen3:
I couldn't agree with you more!!!

90% of my posting are about the Cowlitz River and her fishery. I live here, fish here, and most likely will die here. So I guest that I will never "lighten up" about the issues that affect the Cowlitz River fishery.

Sorry, But I respectfully disagree with you Oxcamp about my "lighten up" problem. It just isn't going to happen!

Cowlitzfisherman

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????