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Posted: 9/26/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the nooksack for a couple hours (dusk). Flow was average, with semi-clear water (2 ft secchi disk). Wow, the river is in great shape, just no fish upstream yet. didn't see any surface, or caugh...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/10/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I had a few hours Sunday morning so I decided to scout the Nooksack. I hiked into various places on the South Fork and the river is loaded with coho, the opener should be a good one. I also checked ou...
By: colel311
Posted: 1/23/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 1-4:30 at the nooksack near Deming, fished a couple of streamer patterns and some other flies but didn't get any bites. Saw 3 fish surface but not much activity. One other person on the river ab...
By: schu7498
Posted: 9/21/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my guy wanted to explore some access spots on the nooksack and see if the fish were in. Started up by deming under the bridge. We fished a slot between two nets, and below the net down river th...
By: beachbum97
Posted: 10/28/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to see if I could wrestle some of these big bad chums. Heard they were running bigger this year.
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No fish landed while I was there. I saw three hook ups, and all of them were ...
By: rfnbry
Posted: 12/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well decided to try my luck with these elusive stellheads on the Nooksack today. Got there around 1250 and noticed that half the river was frozen over. Tossed out a yarn ball on a float for about 20 m...
By: motley
Posted: 9/23/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Nooksack behind my wife's grandparents farm in Ferndale Sat and Sun. The two days of rain brought the river up and it was really muddy! Saw a lot of fish jumping but nothing would hit! Thre...
By: thorson74
Posted: 9/2/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to check out the Nooksack river to try much luck for salmon. Fished at the fishery and at Ferndale. Drift fished using a corky & yarn as well as a pink dick nite. About 3-4 hours in the water.
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By: FishAddict
Posted: 9/3/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First I'd like to thank everyone on the board for the reports and information on fishing for salmon. I've recently moved from Pennsylvania out here and all of the information provided here has helped...
By: bottombarrel
Posted: 8/9/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Nooksack on Sunday when the tribes are not able to fish and within 30 min of the incoming tide had 3 fish landed. lost 2 more at the bank. most everyone is drifting Dick Nites and wicked Wi...
By: branweeds
Posted: 8/14/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing the Nooksack from at least five different spots throughout the main stretch of the river, and have tried every time of day. I have had maybe three or four bites and no fish landed over a ...
By: dweyers
Posted: 8/18/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had an awesome morning. Landed 9, lost 4.
By: Jcverhalen
Posted: 8/19/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Vanderyacht in Ferndale for a couple hours tonight...real slow going. Tried spinners, floating jigs, plugs and drifting pink dick nites. Nary a nibble. Saw 3 or 4 rollers but little else. Coupl...
By: Cohokiller11
Posted: 8/20/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Have fished 3 different days now for about two hours each time all at guide bar and have only landed two fish. They're the only two fish I've seen anyone land. Fishing is tough sledding. Everyone seem...
By: Cohokiller11
Posted: 8/26/2017
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was garbage. Didn't even get any hits. Some rolling here and there but it's been an awful year all around. Open up bait already!!!!
By: ReelHard
Posted: 9/13/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Tryed fishing in lynden the last 3 days. Have seen quite a few fish jumping. Some nice silvers but none are biting for me. Saw one caught last night. I'll be back out tonight to try again.
By: dj2loud
Posted: 10/23/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/23/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Finally had the opportunity to head to the main stem of the Nooksack at the river road access, its now open and fishable, signs are posted and there is an appeal process by the landowner in court.... ...
By: dj2loud
Posted: 10/27/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Good evening all, Fished on the Nooksack today, Main stem at river road had some cloudiness to the water, fished from 7 to 1030... Went 1 / 5 on Coho, Had a football hen 26" just as pretty as can be, ...
By: dj2loud
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I won't say where I was but to a few close fisherman, the river is giving up some seriously big chum salmon this season, on average I've been catching 20+ pounders CONSISTENTLY! One after another in t...
By: dj2loud
Posted: 9/4/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Went down to the samish 1st thing this morning, it was a zoo with fisherman, more like New Years Eve in new york city...... Decided to walk a bit of the river, saw no fish caught while i was there. De...
By: cogitator
Posted: 8/7/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I don't post often, but I had to show this monster flounder that I caught while pink fishing. He put up a great fight, but I was just too much for him.
By: spenny1823
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Nooksack to try my luck yesterday evening with some friends. I didn't get anything, but one of the guys ended up getting 3. They are starting to appear in more numbers, but its stil...
By: tnguyen5791
Posted: 8/18/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Meridian bridge first and saw 10+ other guys there, though none of them got any thing. The water was muddy with almost no visibility and strong current, probably the result from the previou...
By: spenny1823
Posted: 8/22/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Nooksack around 7:30 this evening in hope of some better luck than I have been having the last couple weeks. Ended up getting one bright hen on a cerise/pearl dick nite before calling it q...
By: dweyers
Posted: 8/24/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Got to the river around 8:30 am and landed my first 3 chrome hens in 45 minutes. Spent the rest of the day doing catch and release until 8:00pm when I kept my last fish ( another chrome hen) . Lande...
