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Samish River Report
Skagit County, WA

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10/05/2014
56° - 60°
Drift Fishing
Chinook Salmon
Fish Eggs
Red
Mostly Sunny
Morning
56° - 60°
10/05/2014
2
2279

This is a combined report from yesterday (Saturday) and today (Sunday, 10/5). Yesterday was good but not as good as Friday - lots of fish being caught but definitely a notch lower than Friday.

Today (Sun) there were far fewer fishermen, but the tide was an hour later and a little higher. Number of fish caught was down probably 80% over Saturday and 90% over Friday. Between dusk and about 8am, I hooked 3 on jigs - all three broke my 15 lb. line, so I switched to 20 and sat there for 2 hours without a bite.

Once tide went slack, I went to roe and just bottom drifted - hooked and landed a big buck on the 1st cast but he was pretty dark so I let him go. Hooked/landed another about 30 min later - another buck I wanted to let go but the roe was so far down his gullet that I got a piece of his gill when trying to take it out. It was curtains for him so I kept it - fairly decent light orange flesh...definitely good for the smoker.

Tomorrow (Mon) is probably the last day to get a king on the Samish. Tides go wonky starting Tuesday and the percentage of bright kings is down to under 20% now.

Photos are from yesterday (Saturday)


Comments

kyamukun
10/5/2014 9:55:00 PM
thx for the report! why do you think Mon will be the last day to get a king on the Samish? and what do you mean by tides getting wonky from Tuesday? I'm thinking of going on Wednesday to catch the low tide at 11:30ish, but it's quite a drive from where I am.
Seattle Pat
10/6/2014 5:55:00 PM
I went today (Monday). It sucked. Hardly any kings pulled out. Saw plenty of wild coho you couldn't keep being caught.
Tides here don't get good again until the tail end of next week and by then I think the party for Kings is over and it will be the thick of coho season.
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