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By: natetreat
Posted: 2/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well this saturday we had an adventure. I fished the Skookumchuck with Britannia and Miguel, two newcomers to the river fishing scene. The river was high and colored, with about two feet of visibility...
By: 1goingfishin
Posted: 2/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I got to the river at about 7 AM. I was only fishing for about 20 minutes when I hit my first fish. It was about a 8 lb buck. I kept it just because I havent brought many home lately. 5 more casts hit...
By: ingi
Posted: 3/1/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took my first fishing trip to the skookumchuck last thursday with some advice from natetreat. The fishing was the hottest steelhead action I have seen other than fishing on the grande ronde. I caught ...
By: ingi
Posted: 3/1/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished on the skookumchuck again on saturday, the fishing was nothing near as hot as it was on thursday but there were still a bunch of fish to be caught, I lost 5 fish before I finally landed my firs...
By: ingi
Posted: 3/1/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished again on the skookumchuck, there were lots of fish in the system, they were rolling all over the place but they were not biting like on thursday or saturday. I caught 1 and lost 2 by noon(I arr...
By: Toni
Posted: 3/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I drove down to go fishing at the Skook and what did I see on my way...9 turkeys and then 36 elk with at least 2 spikes in the group. I get to the end of the road and there is only 1 truck parked ther...
By: Mikeel1987
Posted: 2/2/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
good day at the skook today went 6 for 6 in 3 hours time. Recycled fish below shaefer park but still fun and in good shape. black jig with a tad of red seemed best tiped with a piece of shrimp. bes...
By: tframe
Posted: 3/25/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the fields all day and caught one native probably around 10lbs. Fought like crazy and wrapped herself around a submerged log but was able to wade out and unwrap it. Caught her on a nightmare ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Skookumchuck for the second time this season on Saturday morning, still in pursuit of my first "real" Steelhead for 2015. After becoming somewhat convinced over the past two months that m...
By: elliot
Posted: 2/27/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Skookumchuck river! Started a little past noon at the fields saw nothing so I moved up close to the dam around 3:30 and fished till it was dark. Only action that I had was one bobber d...
By: ilikefish
Posted: 1/24/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Borst, Rotary and Schaefer parks on the lower skook. Water looked green brown. Height didn't look too bad, but no hits and no fish seen. Plunkers had zero luck also.
By: Dirty Mike
Posted: 2/3/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
River very low can cross almost anywhere. Only seen dark coho about 20 others fishing zero fish Need Rain.
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Not one for typing up reports but here's another one anyways.
Went out for one of our last trips out to the Chuck this season. Got to the river around 9 PM fished jigs with shrimp down stream from ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 1/28/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I only had time to fish shaffer park. I was the only car when I parked, but guys started piling in right after I got there. No fish for anybody. One guy said he had fishing almost every day for the...
By: natetreat
Posted: 1/28/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well I can confirm the reports from others, the Skookumchuck is slow. After that first pushing of early fish came through, they seem to have got stuck in the Chehalis. I'd like to thank Salmon Barry a...
By: JohnnyBME
Posted: 3/24/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the field and hole hopped with no success. I did hook a sore back but lost it. I saw one small fish caught but it was dark and dark fish was the general consensus of the people I talked to in ...
By: jollymon
Posted: 3/25/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 7:00 and was done at 8:10 am. The first and biggest came on a jig and bobber the next came on a spoon.
Posted: 4/3/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went done today 8am-5pm was pretty slow for us grandpa got skunked. Nothing truely bittin mostly succesful flaseing but tried bobber an jig, bobbber an eggs, and night crawlers under the bobber nothin...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 10/28/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river today looking for coho. Saw one shiny fish come out of some riffles and make a couple leaps so got my gearout and setup shop. Got the boys gear in the water first, hoping to find a cutt ...
By: sinkerswim
Posted: 11/8/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/8/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Work graveyard shift and decided since this morning was my Friday afternoon I'd go do some exploring. Never have fished the Skookumchuck. When I was a kid we used to ride horses off of Johnson Creek R...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
So wanted to keep the mojo going and had someone I have been promising to take out to the Skookumchuck so we hit the fields at daylight and worked our way all the way down to the power lines without a...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 2/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skook around 11:30 to 4:00. Started in the fields and worked my way down, then fished back up to the corner hole. Had two takedowns and missed them both, at least I got to feel some headshak...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 3/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So we were planning on floating the Nooch today but at the last minute, my friends truck wouldn't start so we called an audible and went to plan B which was to hit the Skook. Got to the river at dayb...
By: DannyL
Posted: 2/25/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/23/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30 to 12:00 from the deadline to the tailout of the corner hole with no takedowns. Saw a guy pull a 10lb hatch out of the corner hole. Very slow day for fishing. Water still up and muddy...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Skookumchuck for the first time today. Pulled into the parking lot in the fields around 8am and was fishing by about 8:30 or so. I fished until around 2:15pm. I tried drifting corkies...
