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Posted: 10/23/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today was “convoy” day as a group of WashingtonLakes anglers got together for a nice float from Sultan to Monroe. It was a chance to drift a different part of the river, shoot some video, and catch so...
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Posted: 10/25/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
All I gotta say is wow! Saw alot of fish rolling the surface, nothing was biting the egg. Switched to jig and sand shrimp immediately gets bite, hooked 4 fish kept only two and release a super dark re...
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Posted: 11/9/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Did some aventuring on my own today and found me a nice pool. fished for a couple hours and hooked 4 and kept two that were arlight in color and also hooked 6 large chum that were release. all fish we...
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Posted: 11/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I bought a boat last summer and since haven't done any bank fishing. I found I miss it. Especially pounding the banks for winter steel. I didn't plan to go today, but when I woke up at 5am thinking...
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By: HULI_ISDA
Posted: 11/13/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got a 2 hour window to fish today before I head to school so made the drive to sky just to test out my new home made coho jigs ( pink,purple and black with lots of flash) river was a bit higher than n...
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Posted: 11/17/2013
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/17/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Watched the River drop on Saturday and just knew we were headed for a great day Sunday morning. Caught a real nice summer run Steelhead third cast, see picture. Hooked up several Chum and a very tired...
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By: Snoop
Posted: 11/29/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed away from the Black friday fishing crowd at Reiter and fished the lower river in the morning. Saw no fish. No chum, no smolts, no steelhead. nothing. Headed up to reiter after the apple cup cr...
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By: ragibby
Posted: 11/30/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the sky at 7am Saturday morning. Got to the hole about 7:10am. It was dead, no fish and me and my dad were the only 2 out there. Started fishing jigs under float and within the first hour we both ...
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By: djw0414
Posted: 12/3/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I planned to hit the Skykomish at first light for my first steelhead trip of the winter since the river was on the drop and the timing seemed right. I got all packed up the night before but then check...
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Posted: 1/6/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I made it out for my first hunt for the luminous Steelhead. Reports seemed promising, and 2015 had been a very successful year of fishing for me. Hoping for even better in 2016... Location: Hwy side ...
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Posted: 1/9/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at 0650 to the parking area, walked in and was on the river by 0710. The parking area seemed less full than the river. I attempted a maribu pink jig, jig head with pink worm, silver spoon,...
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By: whoodare
Posted: 1/11/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/10/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday the 9th I floated the lower River, sultan to monroe. River very blown out, I thought by now the sediment would have settled, I did want to get a look at how the floods changed it. Sunday I...
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Posted: 3/16/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I know this may be from a while ago but I felt the need to share this experience with fellow anglers. As I prepared for the day ahead of me on the river I gathered all of the weapons in my ars...
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Posted: 6/25/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My nice boss (also a fisherman) let me leave work when we got our permit. I was up at Reiter by a 12:45 and fished until about 8pm. I did see a couple fish caught, but it was pretty slow. I'm guessing...
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Posted: 12/14/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/14/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Started the morning about 8am at Reiter Ponds. There were about 8 or 9 other people there fishing in front of the big bolder. None seemed to have any luck. Winds were strong making casting very cha...
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By: mmak1617
Posted: 11/18/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My niece called and wanted to know if i was up for some fishing with her and Her boyfriend on the sky, of course i said, it`s a little late in the season for coho but why not. We Started at Reiter Pon...
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By: Snoop
Posted: 11/22/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Woke up at 5:00am with a plan to fish, but no plan on where to go. With a wind advisory I kept the float tube in the garage, and let the trout in Campbell live another day. I figured I would shoot u...
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By: 66kma
Posted: 8/1/2016
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Kinda late report but still. Was fishing right before 4 of July . Nice evening, weather is just you could asking for. Just quet and so peacefull. Bobber is flowing without any chance to going down, b...
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Posted: 10/14/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well gave it a try after the opened the my home rivers and was pretty upset about how many snaggers there are. Tossing jigs like the samish and letting in set and then saying"got a bite" and then they...
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Posted: 6/12/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/10/2017
Hot Spots: 1
We got to Big Eddy Public Water Access around 5am and fished until 10am. No luck whatsoever, no bites. The water was pretty fast. There was one patch of slow water on the other side of the river where...
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By: oakland84
Posted: 12/25/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/24/2016
Hot Spots: 0
went to the Skykomish river today saw a couple caught. caught one myself off of a lime green and black 1/8oz jig with some tuna scent on it.
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Posted: 12/26/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to see if the steelhead were biting. Arrive at about 645 and started fishing around 715. Started out floating jigs and a bead dropper. Hooked up twice shortly after with no fish to show for. ...
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Posted: 7/17/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/16/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Put in our raft at High Bridge around 6:10am, and pulled out at Sultan around 5:15pm. We fished every tailout and head and only caught 1 Rainbow all day. We float fished while in the boat with no luck...
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By: yerp
Posted: 8/27/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had fun! Caught 2 and lost 3 that were hooked for a brief time and missed a strike due to lack of properly mending my line.
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Posted: 9/24/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Tried several spots on the river, bank fishing. No luck with lures, drifting, plunking, used everything in the tackle box practically. Got one strike the whole day with eggs but no hook set. Will giv...
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