Cascade River

[natetreat]

Freak if its only males showing up be patient. Their always the first to show up in the run. You know the run has peaked if you're getting all females.

Seriously, and im not just saying this to be negative.. WAY more hens than bucks for me, go look at my pics from there mostly 2-3 salt hens. So its not all bucks, and honestly ive fished cascade for a while and they have ALWAYS shown up before december, either record late timing or not coming. Who knows something might have happened to one years smoly release cause theres big 2-3 salts but the one year fish are basically non existant

Maybe you should move down and fish the Sky then, we've been finding a lot of fish down here. Although in my experience the run really heats up later around january. The Snoqualmie has been fishing very well also. Whoops, cats out of the bag now. But I'm pretty certain that we're going to see an overnight appearance of fish in the next few weeks. I just hope they stick around in the river like they did laster year, rather than shooting up into the hatchery like those kings did.

[RiverChromeGS]

Yea no kidding, just crazy its 2nd week of december and the cascade has seen no fish, i want more steelhead now!!

[Brat Bonker]

I hope the run comes in the last week of winter break, might be up there that whole week but last year the water was so low but they were still coming in in good numbers.

[DannyL]

And............

[Brat Bonker]

hey on your season stat needs to be changed to steelhead-1 now

[DannyL]

Not yet brat, maybe Monday. That's my buddies not mine

[Brat Bonker]

my bad, maybe 2 on monday actually

[DannyL]

I would be greatful with one haha but two would be nice

[beachbum97]

Freak if its only males showing up be patient. Their always the first to show up in the run. You know the run has peaked if you're getting all females.

Seriously, and im not just saying this to be negative.. WAY more hens than bucks for me, go look at my pics from there mostly 2-3 salt hens. So its not all bucks, and honestly ive fished cascade for a while and they have ALWAYS shown up before december, either record late timing or not coming. Who knows something might have happened to one years smoly release cause theres big 2-3 salts but the one year fish are basically non existant

I'm pretty sure I caught a 1 salt 2 weeks ago. It was 6-7 pounds max. The other two fish have been 8 and 13.

[RiverChromeGS]

Theres a few, but as u can see with the 8 and 11 the larger fish greatly outnumber the 1 salts

[rcthepirate]

Freak if its only males showing up be patient. Their always the first to show up in the run. You know the run has peaked if you're getting all females.

Seriously, and im not just saying this to be negative.. WAY more hens than bucks for me, go look at my pics from there mostly 2-3 salt hens. So its not all bucks, and honestly ive fished cascade for a while and they have ALWAYS shown up before december, either record late timing or not coming. Who knows something might have happened to one years smoly release cause theres big 2-3 salts but the one year fish are basically non existant

Maybe you should move down and fish the Sky then, we've been finding a lot of fish down here. Although in my experience the run really heats up later around january. The Snoqualmie has been fishing very well also. Whoops, cats out of the bag now. But I'm pretty certain that we're going to see an overnight appearance of fish in the next few weeks. I just hope they stick around in the river like they did laster year, rather than shooting up into the hatchery like those kings did.

I'm hoping for that overnight appearance as well. I've been managing to hook up at least once or twice whenever I get out, but it hasn't been red hot. Considering the time of year and the high water we've been having the sky should be stuffed with fish right now, but it certainly isn't yet. Hopefully we'll see better numbers in the coming weeks.

[kzoo]

Maybe you should move down and fish the Sky then, we've been finding a lot of fish down here. Although in my experience the run really heats up later around january. The Snoqualmie has been fishing very well also. Whoops, cats out of the bag now. But I'm pretty certain that we're going to see an overnight appearance of fish in the next few weeks. I just hope they stick around in the river like they did laster year, rather than shooting up into the hatchery like those kings did.

I'm hoping for that overnight appearance as well. I've been managing to hook up at least once or twice whenever I get out, but it hasn't been red hot. Considering the time of year and the high water we've been having the sky should be stuffed with fish right now, but it certainly isn't yet. Hopefully we'll see better numbers in the coming weeks.

I haven't fished the Sky as much as I have the past winters, but what I see and hear is the run has been slow or late. The average and the amount of good days are low compared to the past. I heard of one good day this year.

[natetreat]

Maybe you should move down and fish the Sky then, we've been finding a lot of fish down here. Although in my experience the run really heats up later around january. The Snoqualmie has been fishing very well also. Whoops, cats out of the bag now. But I'm pretty certain that we're going to see an overnight appearance of fish in the next few weeks. I just hope they stick around in the river like they did laster year, rather than shooting up into the hatchery like those kings did.

I'm hoping for that overnight appearance as well. I've been managing to hook up at least once or twice whenever I get out, but it hasn't been red hot. Considering the time of year and the high water we've been having the sky should be stuffed with fish right now, but it certainly isn't yet. Hopefully we'll see better numbers in the coming weeks.

I haven't fished the Sky as much as I have the past winters, but what I see and hear is the run has been slow or late. The average and the amount of good days are low compared to the past. I heard of one good day this year.

It's been a little tougher this year for the winter fish. I'm still optimistic that it's going to light up, I don't like having to work too hard to catch fish. But they're in there, just not in big numbers, they seem to be a bit more spread out than usual. Trick is to cover water and not put all you eggs in one fishing spot.

[TheRealSalmonerd]

I will be out and about the rest of the month finding em, I'm looking forward to a short trip down south here soon, I'm grateful, this is onlymy second year steelheading and I've already marked more than twice as many as I did last year. Effort, that's been the key for me, not that I was lacking any in the past, it's just been combined with a little bit of knowledge and experience, and BAM......steel. When are we going dude?

[Brat Bonker]

hey salmon nerd was that you I fished with on the cascade from the other website or someone else?

[Cozmo4196]

Question about the Cascade: I have a buddy who lives in Arlington and hes mentioned that every time he decides to fish, he hears stories of guys pulling guns at various Cascade holes. Has anyone ever experienced this? I'm passionate about fishing but I would never fight over a spot.

[RiverChromeGS]

Question about the Cascade: I have a buddy who lives in Arlington and hes mentioned that every time he decides to fish, he hears stories of guys pulling guns at various Cascade holes. Has anyone ever experienced this? I'm passionate about fishing but I would never fight over a spot.

fished the cascade hundreds of days over the last few years, chinook, coho, steelhead, all the runs, not only have i never seen a gun pulled but ive seen very very few fights

[RiverChromeGS]

I will be out and about the rest of the month finding em, I'm looking forward to a short trip down south here soon, I'm grateful, this is onlymy second year steelheading and I've already marked more than twice as many as I did last year. Effort, that's been the key for me, not that I was lacking any in the past, it's just been combined with a little bit of knowledge and experience, and BAM......steel. When are we going dude?

we will get out as soon as the FREAKIN FISH SHOW UP... im still convinced they arent coming at all, maybe a huge flood hit the river right when they released the fry 2 years ago, maybe the water was so low they stayed in the river longer and got hammered by dollies, i dont know, all i know is the water has been up and down many times and nothing happened, and its like half way through cascade season already. But we will get out, ill take ya to some of the other places ive been making up for the cascades lack of fish

[steeleywhopper]

Last year was one of those "banner" years for the Cascade. In my opinion the Cascade run of steelhead is usually not very big. If you look at the past several years the river has been shut down early because the hatchery could not get enough fish for egg take. I think last year was the first year in a few years that it was not shut down early. You kids hit it just right last year, unfortunatly this river has never been a "lights out" fishery.

[Brat Bonker]

check that I think last 3 years it has not been closed early and last year almost 1000 fish were retained but yes for as many smolts they put in and only 1500 fish are recorded, returns are not very good maybe we should start killing dollies...or keep praying that one day tribes would not be able to net for steelhead...one day...hopefully...