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By: brutus234
Posted: 10/6/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After monday's success I decided to hit up the south fork last night and this morning.
I went last night at high tide and trolled the same stuff that had got the one on monday but, only managed to...
By: cardinalorange
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to get to the water by 5 am but didn't get on the water until about 7. We started on the upper skagit where the cascade dumps into the Skagit bankfishing spoons for ~2 hours. Not a single bite. ...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/5/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It feels great to be able to fish the skagit again and today did not dissapoint. Launched in Mount Vernon and decided to try something that I have never done before, troll plugs. My buddy and I each g...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/12/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well the coho fishing is still good on the lower skagit. Boated 13 silvers this week. Mid week was a little slow on the couple days I got out with the nets being in. But today picked back up and manag...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/17/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well I took a couple days off from fishing to rest up and keep the wife happy. Back at it today with a late start so I could sleep in. Went up to my troll and made three passes and kept two wild fish ...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/18/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out again this morning with a buddy and we expected easy limits after my luck yesterday. Today was tough tho. Spend many hours trolling my usual spots but there just were not any fish. Moved d...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/19/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Good day today after yesterdays tough day. My buddy and I went up to the hole I pulled one out of yesterday and started trolling. 4 passes and 4 wild fish. the biggest was pushing 15lbs. Today the gre...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/14/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another good day on the lower river. A buddy and his girlfriend wanted to tag allong this morning to get thier first silvers of the season before heading to work. Ended up getting 5 trolling plugs. An...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/20/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Slept in this morning and had to wait for my dad to get out of church. My buddy went out this morning with another guy and he was keeping me updated on how the fishing was going. The updates were not ...
By: rappuhd
Posted: 10/21/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skagit both Saturday and Sunday. First time every fishing this river so was not real sure where to start. Decided to troll brad's plugs and just watch the finder looking for some productive...
By: rseas
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Yea, two weekends in a row! Well sort of anyway, we were able to get out for an hour or so. We launched at Gardner on the Skagit in Burlington and set up for an uphill troll just upstream of the RR B...
By: Norm
Posted: 10/23/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took my dad out again today with hopes of getting him into some more fish. Made 4 passes and did not touch a fish so im thinking its going to be another slow day. I decided to switch up and try a flat...
By: kaveman
Posted: 10/25/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Caught my first ever river Silver. That's why a 4. Thanks Norm for getting me into this fish. I've enjoyed and appreciated fishing with you this season.
By: Norm
Posted: 10/4/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
It's been slow so far this year. Not many fish in yet. I have made 4 trips so far and have only had 4 fish hit the deck. All have came on plugs. Any day now some good numbers should show.
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 6/8/2015
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well I was able to run a week or so of Skagit springer trips before I leave for Alaska. Figured id throw up a quick report and outlook for the fall salmon season as well!
First off, Skagit springer...
By: boyuster
Posted: 9/16/2012
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I am from Wyoming and used Riverchrome guide service to locate some of the best fishing we have had in years.3 of us limited out before noon each day. Danny got us on the fish and did a graet job kee...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 6/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We were visiting my parents in Skagit county, so I took a short fishing trip to the river. Since the rivers just recently reopened I thought that fishing would be good. Unfortunately the fish weren't ...
By: Ladyclipper
Posted: 11/19/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on the river. 101/2 and 14 #. Brass spoon and Blue Fox spinner.
By: BigBadBri
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Long time lurker... first time reporter!
I was itching to get on the Skagit but was tied up for Labor Day weekend. FUN! Family weekend at Lake Wenatchee, but I knew fish were sneaking by back home. M...
By: Jakefish
Posted: 6/25/2017
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skagit at first light both Saturday and Sunday. Using live sand shrimp behind a spin-n-glo (my lucky one is chrome with pink tiger stripes and pink wings) we plunked on a popular bar with ...
By: NobleNerd
Posted: 8/18/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2021
Hot Spots: 0
It's been awhile since I've seen a report on the Skagit, so thought I would contribute by submitting one and hopefully encourage others to jump in.
My wife and I launched the boat around 5:30pm. We ...
By: NobleNerd
Posted: 8/21/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skagit again, this time with my wife, brother and nephew. We fished most the day. Lots of people out doing the same.
Didn't get too creative on location. Saw fish rolling, so we ancho...
By: rls44
Posted: 8/24/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
went to the spud bar on skagit a friend and I and wow we caught fish at least 20 in 3 hrs only kept one
By: Jakefish
Posted: 6/23/2019
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished both Saturday 6/22 and Sunday 6/23 for Skagit sockeye in Mt. Vernon from our boat. Followed the great tips in this thread from several years ago (thanks Steelheading360). http://www.northwest...
By: Lobsterbait83
Posted: 12/22/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to the lower skagit river. Chasing steel but ended up having a wonderful day with dollys.
Went to the basics except for the set up a 5-6 fly rod with a ultralight spinning reel 6 pound mono. P...
