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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 9/12/2013
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: 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: NobleNerd
Posted: 8/18/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2021
Hot Spots: 0
It's been awhile since I've seen a report on the Skagit, so thought I would contribute by submitting one and hopefully encourage others to jump in.
My wife and I launched the boat around 5:30pm. We ...
By: NobleNerd
Posted: 8/21/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skagit again, this time with my wife, brother and nephew. We fished most the day. Lots of people out doing the same.
Didn't get too creative on location. Saw fish rolling, so we ancho...
By: rls44
Posted: 8/24/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2021
Hot Spots: 0
went to the spud bar on skagit a friend and I and wow we caught fish at least 20 in 3 hrs only kept one
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/5/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2021
Hot Spots: 0
After fishing the Skagit the day prior with Russ Elgin, I met a fellow kayaker at the Edgewater Park launch and headed up river about 1 mile. Once we found the spot we wanted to fish, minus a few lull...
By: JoshH
Posted: 9/11/2021
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/11/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Debated between heading out to Whidbey to chase Coho or hitting the river 1 more time for pinks. After stopping at Holiday Sports and getting a report, one last trip to the river it was!
I met 3 ot...
By: RedRum
Posted: 11/27/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Swift Creek section of the Skagit. Fought the howling wind and listened to trees come down until the waiting time for casting in between gusts was too long for my patience! Was swinging fli...
By: Lobsterbait83
Posted: 12/22/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to the lower skagit river. Chasing steel but ended up having a wonderful day with dollys.
Went to the basics except for the set up a 5-6 fly rod with a ultralight spinning reel 6 pound mono. P...
By: tleeMV
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I were exploring some new spots on the upper skagit (catch & release) and hooked into a couple small dolly's and a white fish. My buddy released a very nice 23" dolly he caught on a fly. H...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2012
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a 22" Dolly on the Skagit. First cast with my spoon and the fish slammed it. The river has been a bit out of shape the past couple days so I'm going to try it tomorrow. I've had good luck wi...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 1/19/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
fished for dollies today on the skagit since steelhead are slow. got one bite on big silver rapala and landed one small one on a dick night that was quickly released. good day on upper sakgit. Trying ...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/27/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Occupational loose ends tied up so I had a couple hours unaccounted for. I headed upriver to commune with my aquatic friends. I love this time of the year, crisp fall weather, the river is choked with...
By: rseas
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I spent some time on the Skagit Saturday morning. I launched at Gardener and fished a variety of spots more as an exploratory trip than anything. Exploratory yes, but I did have a plan, my plan was to...
By: medic1
Posted: 8/18/2009
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2009
Hot Spots: 1
My wife and I had her 9 year old brother for the weekend so we decided to make the trip from the Tri Cities up to Mount Vernon and hopefully get the little guy his first salmon. Fishing was great, 14...
