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Posted: 2/2/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
good day at the skook today went 6 for 6 in 3 hours time. Recycled fish below shaefer park but still fun and in good shape. black jig with a tad of red seemed best tiped with a piece of shrimp. bes...
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Posted: 12/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
spokey 9 and myself went down today looking for some steel but we only found some old silvers we were up by the hatcher we threw just about everything to get steel but only silver still had a good t...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 12/23/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on the skookumchuck with my brother. Had a blast, the river was up, visibility was down and the fish were in. Went yesterday morning, as I had business in Olympia, and broke off a BIG b...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Killer day on skookumchuck river loaded with fish everywhere. bright coho stacked up in deep holes still. tight linez bobber and eggs 12lb buck
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Posted: 11/10/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the last 2 days on the skook not much to write home about however I did have a red on until he spit the hook at me...I would have released him anyway...As compared to yesterday the weather was i...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/7/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing their for the first time it was so great.The river was murking so a put a blue fox spinner on gold with a single hook and pink worm on it.Toss it under lims in the water and caught 3 silv...
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Posted: 9/22/2010
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
THE FIFTH AND FINAL RIVER OF MY TWO DAY ADVENTURE. I WENT TO THE SKOOK UP BY THE DAM OFF JOHNSON CREEK WITH MY WIFE. IT WAS HER FIRST TIME FISHING AND AFTER KIND OF A LET DOWN AT THE TOUTLE I KNEW I C...
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By: Toni
Posted: 3/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I drove down to go fishing at the Skook and what did I see on my way...9 turkeys and then 36 elk with at least 2 spikes in the group. I get to the end of the road and there is only 1 truck parked ther...
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By: DoubleR
Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the mouth of the Skookumchuck and caught about 9# hatchery buck steelie at about 11 AM. Skookumchuck and Chehalis were both dirty and high from earlier rain, but dropping rapidly. Becau...
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Posted: 2/17/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skook about 6:30 in the morning hopin' for some steelie action. Saw a few jumpers. Had a decent hit early but lost it when I didn't set the hook soon enough. Caught a little one only about 11 ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 2/14/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I left home as the rain was letting up and it looked very nice when I got to the river. Leaving my rain coat in the vehicle with the moon roof open I headed out to fish. There weren’t a lot of peopl...
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By: Toni
Posted: 1/22/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobber down! That is the first time my bobber has gone down due to a fish in a river. Ok...it was a trout (about 8 inches). The river had people all over. They started at the openings upriver from ...
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By: jens
Posted: 1/4/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Jerry around 6:30am. We both struggled to find the river with the New Years festivities from the night prior (actually til the wee hours). We talked earlier in the evening and had every ...
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By: jtrapier
Posted: 11/2/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to the Skook after a COMPLETELY WASTED drive to Minter Creek, and it was well worth the drive. My buddy caught a 25# king on his first cast, and throughout the next 4 hours I landed 3 kings...
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By: NITRO 175
Posted: 10/24/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I got up early this morning to go fishing at skookumchuck. Got there at 630am the area was already full of cars and trucks I managed to find a parking space across from the hatchery. The fi...
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By: rseas
Posted: 10/19/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday I had to drop a kid off in Grand Mound for the day so instead of driving back and forth from Skagit County I decided to spend the day exploring the area and pestering the local fish popula...
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By: FISHINROB
Posted: 2/26/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
MADE IT TO THE SKOOK AGAIN ,GOT THERE BEFORE LIGHT AND MY FISHING BUDDY CRABLEGS WAS ALONG .WE FISHED THREE HOURS AND NO FISH ,HE HAD TO LEAVE AND I FISHED ON.I FISHED ANOTHER TWO HOURS AND FINALLY H...
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By: Toni
Posted: 2/26/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Since it snowed last night and then froze I decided to do errands first then go fishing. I got to the river to fish just after noon. I saw several old salmon going up and down the river but didn't ho...
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Posted: 2/22/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
after reading all the good reports i decided to hit up the skookumchuck 2day. BAD IDEA!!!!! fished below the dam at didn't see one steelhead caught all day!! did see a few nasty half dead silvers thou...
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By: jens
Posted: 2/22/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river right before 2p. Met up with Kinghunter and Alex, my son was with me as well. I was using pink corky and yarn and about 2 feet of leader. My son had one on as well but lost it right a...
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By: FISHINROB
Posted: 2/21/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
TODAY WAS A PERSONAL BEST EVER STEELHEAD DAY .I GOT MY LIMIT AND HIT TWO SILVERS AND LOST ANOTHER STEELHEAD .I HADNT PLANNED ON FISHING ALOT JUST LOOKING AROUND AND UP RIVER BUT I FISHED ENOUGH .I HIT...
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By: FISHINROB
Posted: 2/20/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
WELL I MADE BACK TO THE SKOOK ,I MET MY NEIGHBOR MIKE THERE.I WAS THERE AT SUNRISE HE CAME A LITTLE LATER.I HOOKED AND REALEASED 2 SILVERS BEFORE HE GOT THERE, AND WHILE HE WAS THERE I GOT 4 AND ONE ...
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By: Toni
Posted: 2/14/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I got there around 9 and there was parking! This must mean that a lot of the fisher-guys are taking there sweethearts out for Valentines Day. Nitro with a young man and FISHINROB were already ther...
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By: FISHINROB
Posted: 2/14/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
GOOD TO BE BACK OUT FISHING.I GOT THERE EARLY AND ON MY WAY IN THE SECOND TO THE LAST PARKING LOT THERE WAS A LONE DOE MUNCHING AWAY I THOUGHT GOOD SIGHN .I PARKED AT THE END OF THE ROAD AND WALKED IN...
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Posted: 2/9/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/8/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 11am-3pm. Mainly drift with corky and yarn, did try floating with jig and shrimp, but the river was too muddy I think for that, visibility was almost zero where I was at. At ...
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