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Posted: 12/11/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Saw a few fish tailing out on the river but no takers, but the Dollies always seem to be willing. #3 Blue Fox Vibe single hooks seem to be their favorite.
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Posted: 12/2/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/1/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Had some fun on the mighty Skagit now that the river is down and clear. Saw a bunch of Steel jumping acroos and down rivere from where I was but ended up catching a ton of trout, mostly Dollies. The o...
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By: Jimbo
Posted: 11/16/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Missed the Coho run, and I know I Missed a Good One. Work, Work, Work, but I said not today and went to a place I've gone for over 20 years. Tad early for Steel but I was lucky...
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By: burlee
Posted: 10/26/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A very good day on the Skagit. 3 limits by lunchtime twitchin' jigs in the Concrete area. One was getting a little dark. Only 2 were bright, but they were great fun, and will eat or smoke very well. ...
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By: Chromer
Posted: 10/9/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Tough fishing this morning. Not many silvers up towards Concrete yet. Saw a couple jump but not many to catch. Had one follow me in on my spinner but it didn't take it. I'll try again later today....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/8/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river this moring out of gardner amd went down to meet a friend. The gardner launch was a zoo. When I got down to where my friend was he lifts up a nice 14lb coho as im pullin up. So I ancor u...
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By: winton
Posted: 10/2/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit water at day break. Found a spot with some slow water up from the Gardener Rd launch in Burlington. Last week it was all about the pinks, so I tied up a Wicked Willie. But my son-in-law wanted a ...
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By: winton
Posted: 9/24/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out at day break and made some casts in slow water up from the Gardener Rd launch. Caught eight Humpies and released five that were too dark. Used a pink Wicked Willie. My fishing partner trie...
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Posted: 9/18/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from Gardner Rd. Using shrimp and large hotpink spinners we got 4 pinks into boat, lost 3 trying to get to net. Using other colors or smaller sized spinners caught no fish. The bite was bett...
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By: burlee
Posted: 9/17/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I wasn't sure that "I" (as in "my wife") wanted more humpies to smoke, but 1 or 2 hens would be nice for the eggs, so I leasurely headed out to the river around 9:30. Well....it only took about 15 min...
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By: Jimbo
Posted: 9/10/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another steller day.. We hooked a zillion the day before, hopes were to find some Coho. Rounding the bend @ the forks we could see many people said no work Friday was a good plan. Our best spots w...
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By: Beefish'n
Posted: 9/8/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my ladies out today and tried the Skagit for the first time this year. We tried to launch at the spud bar but it was tied up for over a half hour with the nets being unloaded. One guy ahead of ...
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By: Norm
Posted: 9/7/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It was a slow at first this morning with not a lot of fish below mount vernon. About mid morning we went up past mount vernon and ancored in some stumps where we saw fish jumping. Two hours of casting...
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By: burlee
Posted: 9/7/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The boss's (not my wife) cousin was in town from AZ and wanted to catch some humpies. We had tried Monday evening without too much success, so we went down to the N. Fork to fish the end of the incomi...
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By: Jimbo
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wife wanted more fish fun and she had to go back to work. We ran back to the South fork and hooks in about 5:15, first cast she is ON. And many more to fallow that. We were in a deeper spot and that...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/6/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the skagit yesterday morning casting spoons while drifting above mount vernon. We hook a few humpys right away. My friends reel was not working right so he switcfhed over to his trout rod and righ...
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Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First time posting...defintiely learned a lot from y'all...thanks. took the kids out in our 10' hewscraft...8 hp yamaha putted us up the river from the riverfront park launch. Anchored up next to th...
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By: Norm
Posted: 9/1/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I was way to bored sitting at home yesturday so this morning I had to get out on the river and catch some more fish. Took the girlfriend out today for 3 hours and we could not keep the humpys off our ...
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By: burlee
Posted: 8/31/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Another good morning on the river with Nick Petosa. At least 20 hook-ups between the 3 of us fishing. Many were still bright fish, some still had sea lice on them. Pink jigs between Burlington and Se...
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By: kjtemp
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at the fork by the spud plant in the morning and left mid afternoon. We had four people on the boat so we fished with four poles. Two poles we did sand shrimp and almost right away we g...
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By: Norm
Posted: 8/29/2011
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river today trying to get a silver in the boat but could not keep the humpys off the green spoons today. Used three different green sporns and a green and silver spinner with a shade of orange...
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By: winton
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A little slower this morning than it has been the last two weeks. Got two nice pink salmon just up from Gardner Rd casting pink Wicked Willies. Saw seven taken on a pink jig with a plastic worm added...
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By: kjtemp
Posted: 8/26/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the 25th from the Mt. Vernon boat launch to the right to the fork in the river. We had three in the boat so my dads cousin and I used spoons, copper fst and pink wicked willie. My dad us...
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By: Norm
Posted: 8/25/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river late morning to get out and have some fun in the sun. Took a little while to find the fish but when I did I had constant action. I was plunking pink spoons behind the boat. Ended up cat...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/22/2011
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the skagit again today. Had to dodge 8 indian boats with nets all the way across the river just to get down to where I fish usually. We had 6 on but lost them at the boat just playing around and h...
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