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By: Tom H
Posted: 9/12/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
GREAT DAY ON THE WATER. WADING NEAR CONCRETE AND HOOKED 17 PINKS AND LANDED ONLY 7. PRETTY SURE I HAD MY DRAG SET TOO TIGHT. HAD 2 MALES THAT WERE ABOUT 7LBS AND IN GREAT SHAPE. RETURNED ALL TO THE R...
By: Tom H
Posted: 9/12/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
HIT THE RIVER ABOUT 8 AM AND HAD A NICE HEN ON ON MY SECOND CAST. FISHED 3 HOURS CAUGHT 4 TOTAL 3 HENS AROUND 4 LBS AND ONE MALE IN GREAT SHAPE THAT WAS ABOUT 6. ALSO CAUGHT A 4LB RAINBOW AND A 4LB BR...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 9/10/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, fishing on the upper Skagit has been nothing short of amazing. I've been trying to stay away from the Samish as much as possible, and the Skagit has been a blast. We have been hammering 50 to 1...
By: EFHutton
Posted: 9/7/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Managed to talk my 16 year old daughter into getting up at the crack of "going to bed" and headed up to the Skagit for some Humpy fishing. She was all for it as she really wants to catch one. Got to t...
By: Tom H
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
HIT THE RIVER ABOUT 9 AM. CAUGHT 2 NICE PINKS ON SPOONS WITHIN 1/2 HR THEN IT STARTED POURING RAIN SO I QUIT. WADING UP NEAR CONCRETE AND SAW LOTS OF FISH AND THE ONES I GOT WERE STILL NICE AND BRITE....
By: mud shark
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
EPIC DAY TODAY.....got to the river at daylight had 2 fish to the bank within the fist 15 min of fishing the wife and kids were going to meet me up at 10am so i started to release all fish caught i...
By: Harj13
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had a late start this morning on the Skagit, got there around 10:00, off the South Skagit Hwy. Wasn't having any luck with spoons, so switched to drift fishing. I saw fish swimming past about 15 feet ...
By: skyriverat
Posted: 8/31/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished the lower North Fork "Garbage Hole" above the bridge on Fir Island. It was an outgoing tide which didn't make much difference as the pinks are everywhere. The location requires a Discovery Pass...
By: Jimbo
Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What an end to this weeks fishing for us. Ran up the South fork about 09:00 in fog here and there. Rounded the fork and headed down the North side. Fish on all over in boat. Come to our spot and there...
By: ilike2fish4fish
Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up to Lyman at about 630 and launched at the old ferry. Headed downstream a little ways and anchored up by a current seam. dropped pink jigs behind the boat tipped with a little bit of shrimp. ...
By: Norm
Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Finally made it out again, three days off the river and I start to go crazy. My buddy decided since it was pouring this morning that he would forget about fishing. A couple phone calls later I convinc...
By: countryboy87
Posted: 8/28/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
this reports for the 24th-26th. camped 3 nights on the skagit above mt vernon. saw tons and tons of fish caught. our group ended up 22-36 including one silver on sunday. lotta boats plunking sandshrim...
By: Jimbo
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Zipped up the North fork about Noon, many boat's in the fork area. Found our spot open on the North and dropped the claw. Set up the wife's rod with a Green Willy, next mine in pink. Sat down her rod ...
By: shambaj
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Great day for plunking on the Skagit River. My wife and I caught 4, lost 7 using sand shrimp with 5 weight. 3 ' leader.
Nice size. people on either side of us made their limit. Deeper water pays off...
By: mud shark
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
so we hit up the skagit today as we knew the snohomish would be wayyy crowded with the derby going on ther skagit today was lights out fishing we got 3 limits in 2 hours and lost too many fish to ...
By: skagitfishman
Posted: 8/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on the Skagit. Fished off my island just down river from Rasar State Park. Kept three nice bucks, the biggest being around 6 1/2 pounds, about 24 inches. All the fish put up pretty go...
By: EFHutton
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with friends for some heavy pink fishing. By the time I got there, they had already landed 15 fish. Seemed like a sure bet for me so I jumped right in. Took a while to get one on, but within an...
By: Norm
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today I decided to launch from Gardner and see how fishing has been up there. Im starting to get tired of catching pinks so I anchored up and plunked my coho spinners. I was looking forward to getting...
By: EFHutton
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing the Skagit with friends. Never caught a Humpy on the Skagit in all the years I've tried. Finally I got one and what a thrill it was! Seemed like the fish were coming through in a school at the...
By: burlee
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A good morning to be on the Skagit, I'm not sure where everyone else was, because I didn't see but one other person, and they were 1/4 mile away. Fishing from the bank in Mt. Vernon, my 2nd cast with ...
By: RRanger66/67
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Skagit from 6:30 A.M.-10A.M.--Located just below the Gardener Launch. Friend, Jack and I caught 4 pinks and one nice silver using either FST (copper with red head) or Needlefish( gold with...
By: RichieRich
Posted: 8/20/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the North fork, Hit 12 landed half, caught 3 on pink flies and the rest on Dick nite spoons......Man they take flies hard.....They are netting the river now.......No pics but you know what pin...
By: Chromer
Posted: 8/19/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the skagit this evening, my usual spot. Went 7 for 7 on Pinks, using a Pink Hootchie; 1/4 oz. Kept 4, biggest buck being 26", hen 23". All fought hard, big buck took a little while to land, usi...
By: Norm
Posted: 8/16/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A couple days not fishing really gets to a man. Decided to head out for a couple hours this morning to see what was going on. Went down to the North Fork and started casting some jigs. Ended up going ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
just like the other reports, still no fish. I fished at railroad bridge by soccer fields. water color is in good shape.