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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: natetreat
Posted: 3/15/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Quick report from on the road. Fished the Skookumchuck today and caught a mess of brown trout! Well, lots of dark steelhead anyway. Couple of bright ones mixed in, and the crowds aren't bad on the we...
By: tele_maniac
Posted: 3/23/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally made it back to the Skookumchuck with my brother yesterday. Arrived at the river a little later than intended. Fished all day. It was a cold and sunny most of the day. Later in the afternoon t...
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: 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...
By: mizm05
Posted: 3/3/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the fields hard on Sunday. From the "top" of the fields by the cable crossing, down to the power lines. No fish, and same story for the 4-5 guys I bumped into throughout the day.
Water w...
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: tele_maniac
Posted: 3/16/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Skookumchuck River yesterday afternoon with my buddy Robb. It was a beautiful sunny day with some high scattered clouds. The water was pretty murky from the previous rain. Over all th...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/22/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skookumchuck from about 12:30 to 5:30 or so in the evening. Tried numerous spots down in the fields, mostly bobber and jig, but I also drifted some corkies and yarn where the current was a ...
By: stretch
Posted: 3/24/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/23/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Made it to the red gate parking area around 6:30 this morning. Not too crowded, but was getting busy by 8 or so. Started just below the red gate fishing seams and holes. Saw fish moving through the...
By: akfishgrl
Posted: 3/25/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Headed down to the river early this morning...2nd time to this river. Took a break and picked up a 4 big nests of line along the bank and a grocery bag full of garbage. Was nice to bank on the effor...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning fishing the Cowlitz by the Blue Creek launch, but after no luck there we packed up and moved to the Skookumchuck. Started fishing there about 11:30am up at the corner hole. The two...
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived around 7:30 at the hole with the big rock cliff area. Nothing biting so we moved up by the hatchery. Worked our way up to the deadline with no action but tons of river otters spooking the stee...
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: akfishgrl
Posted: 1/9/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by the Skook to see what was happening. Not too crowded probably because it was new years. Was a nice day and fished till my eyelets froze up.
Didn't see any steelhead, but I did catch an o...
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.
By: mrdiecky
Posted: 2/13/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to borst,and the dam. Water was dark and blown out saw a couple dark coho but no steel. It seems strange that the fish aren't there yet since it is usally hot by now. Will try again next sat
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: Dirty Mike
Posted: 3/6/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to the river about 6:30 as i live local thought id beat the crowd boy was i wrong packed house up by dam. Started fishing below bloody run since no room above after about 2 hrs of not seeing ...
By: upperleft
Posted: 3/8/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
"The skookumchuck is as dead as my great grandma and there is absolutely not enough steelhead to go out there. Been out on the river floating beads, jigs and throwing spoons/spinners.. Havnt had any a...
Posted: 3/15/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Contrary to popular belief, there are fish in the river...if you bought a license, you paid for the right to catch 'em ...go get 'em.
