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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: fishindude
Posted: 11/29/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
wanted to get out and fish on my birthday and thats just what I did. Conditions were not ideal but went for it anyway. Fought the snow, and high colored up water and scratched out a birthday salmon. L...
By: Ijordan317
Posted: 12/4/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Caught two huge hogs below the dam up river on my fly rod. Dead drifting anything that is the color of pink was the method of success for the day. You can make out all the fish in the water schooling ...
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: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Despite the torrential rain that was in the forecast, I headed down to the Skookumchuck on Saturday to see if I could find some willing biters. I was really on the fence about going, given how low the...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Rearranging my work schedule a bit so I could get down to the river today, I took full advantage of the rain that came through yesterday and caused the river level to spike. My hope was that with the ...
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: dawgdrvr
Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived just before daybreak. The water is still like chocolate milk. I was fishing just on the dam side of the red gate. I decided plunking was about the only option . So I soaked cured prawns on a h...
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.
Posted: 3/23/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Saw the skookumchuck was dropping back into shape, so I headed down for the afternoon to try and find some steelhead. There are a lot of dark fish in the river ...a few bright ones too...ended up taki...
