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By: Ian Horning
Posted: 3/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Send me on my way, capture my heart, grant me peace, and make the sun cross the sky in minutes.
TFO BVK 5wt
Ross Flyrise
Rio IT Deep3
One of the many places on my bucket list has been crossed ...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 1/5/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Just a quick report.
My final day of Fishing the Sky River until I go back to school for the next quarter. Bidding this beautiful river system farewell for one season, to be returned to once warm J...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 12/31/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ending 2015 with a bang and a couple bobber downs.
Skykomish River
7:30AM-3:50PM
Okuma SST 10'6" ML
Okuma Celilo 8' UL
This has been the most amazing year of my fishing career thus far. I gai...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 12/28/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Rough, Rowdy, Extraordinary.
Skykomish River
7:10AM-3:50PM
Lamiglas SI-IH 9'3"
Okuma Celilo 8'
The thing about chasing steelhead that differs from all other northwest fish species is the ru...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 12/19/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Redemption.
Skykomish River
December 19th, 2015
7:20AM-12:00PM
Cabela's WLGUL 8'2" Pro Guide
After an agonizing several days without fishing due to my injured knee, The desire to get back out...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 12/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Back at it on the Wallace.
12/15/15
Lamiglas SI-IH 9'3" L
Okuma Celilo 8' UL
It was just another one of those days. I can't really say whether it was a great one or a really bad one. Probably a ...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 12/13/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Braving the wind and rain in high hopes of chasing some icy chrome.
Wallace River
7AM-2PM
Cabela's WLGUL Steelhead Slammer, 8'3" M
Oh and my rod isn't an actual Cabela's product. It was original...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 11/27/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 0
Fished: 11/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Many people don't like this time of year. The coho are all gone, the steelhead haven't really shown up yet, and its cold outside.
Many facets of these complaints are not only wrong, but sadly unin...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 11/12/2015
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Yippee, two day report coming in.
Whatcom creek is the most accessible fishery to me currently, and has received my attention due to the lovely chum salmon that run through in hordes.
Yes, I sai...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 11/2/2015
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Thanks to daylight savings time I can no longer fish the Nooksack after classes due to a lack of time. So, I turn my attention to Whatcom Creek.
I was very unimpressed with the level of sportsmans...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 10/30/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not much to report today. The river is pretty much blown out due to the rain. The water is high and muddy. Fish are moving, lots of small dark coho. Visibility is less than a foot. More rain will undo...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 10/24/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It was another day to remember on the Nooksack River. I was able to finish my classes on time, say "wuz good" to a couple people around campus, and pack up for the Nooksack River via bus.
I was pla...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 10/16/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Sometimes thing don't go as planned.
10/15/2015, 2:30-6:30 PM
Okuma Celilo 8ft Ultralight
Pflueger President
8lb P-Line CX
The weather was as perfect of a day as one could ask for in October...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 10/5/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
College is in full swing now, but all the classes and homework and distractions can't take me off of the water for too long. That's just not how I work.
The awesome social aspect of college has mad...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 9/19/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 0
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I hit one of my favorite little rivers in search of wild trout a couple days ago. It proved to be the last time I could fish before departing for college, and it was a great day with plenty of fish to...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 9/14/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Ah, the crisp fall days are here, as the Coho arrive and the leaves yellow, falling like the temperature into the river.
Yes, my poetic skills are about equivalent to my success fighting Coho salmo...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 9/12/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Back at the Snohomish river for some humpy action.
After epoxying the first of two coats of my custom Lamiglas SI-IH, I set out to fish as the epoxy dried.
Upon arriving, the fish didn't slouch ...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another day on the SnoHo, another adventure.
This report is not so much about the fish, but the rancid amount of unsportsmanlike conduct I witnessed (and apparently others did too) while on the riv...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 9/7/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Upper SnoHo today for some pinks.
I saw tens of thousands of fish today. Rollers everywhere, plenty of fish swimming around basically at my feet. Took a little hike and arrived at a shal...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 9/6/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This is a combo report for the day targeting two different species.
First I departed to Reiter hatchery and searched around for some steelhead. There was plenty of people there, only a couple caugh...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 8/26/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to fish the SnoHo yesterday. It was a superb day with a couple of surprises....
I was not able to catch a single bright colored fish; they were all green with most dawning superb arches ...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 6/23/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If it was always easy, it wouldn't be rewarding. If anyone could do it, it wouldn't be special.
June 22nd- 5:10 AM- 1:30PM
Upon catching my first steelhead just a couple day ago, I find myself p...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 6/19/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If it was always easy, it wouldn't be rewarding. If everyone could do it, it wouldn't be special.
It's the constant challenge that drives this machine and keeps me coming back for more.
5:10 ...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 6/7/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Today I learned the true nature of the Reiter Hatchery hole.
Got to the hatchery at sunrise and got onto the water, only a couple guys fishing. And looking 5 feet from the shore in small, deeper po...
By: Ian Horning
Posted: 5/25/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 0
Fished: 5/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report covers two days of fishing on a lake that will not be named. County- Skamania? Pierce? King? I don't know.
I guess it's kinda cruel to post a report without revealing location, but the f...