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By: Snoop
Posted: 6/29/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Planned on hitting the reiter opener, but got a call from a friend who wanted to tag along, that turned into 3 friends, so decided to hit the mouth of the wallace for the extra room. Saw about 5 fish...
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By: chengpu
Posted: 6/29/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the madness that was the opening day at Reiter. Fishing was below average. Water is super high, fast, and cloudy. There were 60+ cars in the parking lot by 8 am. Guys had to hack down the bushes j...
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By: js7
Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/4/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Got to reiter at around 5:30 when it opened and fished till noon.Only 1 fish for the 45+ fishermen on both sides of the river.Only had 1 or 2 hits the whole time.I guess i`ll try again later.
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Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First time fishing the Sky from the bank and it wasn't a success. We hit the river for a few hours this afternoon about a mile east of Zeke's Drive In. My friend worked a pink jig under a float and I ...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Managed to make the late morning show at Reiter today. Didn't want to wake up for dawn, so I slept in, left about 6:45 dunno when I got there, I've got to set the clock in my rig. The water has dr...
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Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
All I can say is if your going to fish Reiter on the weekend right now, get there at the buttcrack of dawn, pick the best lookin spot you can find and don't move cuz the crowd is a comin. The water is...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
yeah its crowded but be patient guys. got one on a pink jig then put on corky yarn sand shrimp jelly and got my limit.
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By: colin
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished reiter at day break till 10. Lost three due to my ignorance... lmao floated jigs and bounced corky and yarn. Lost them off the jig. Orange and white. Seen only one banked. So I decided it was t...
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Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got to reiter a little late in the morning (alarm user malfunction). Went down low and threw some hardware first and got nothing. Moved up as the day progressed and got a native to the shore before it...
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By: J-MICHAEL
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got up a bit late this morning but decided to take a stroll behind the cabin and check out the Sky and see if there were any Steel biting or not. Saw one green drift boat slowly working the holes upri...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/31/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Reiter this weekend. The fish were biting better today than yesterday, cloudy with a little rain. I landed a small one with my new pole. :) I'm still learning how to drift fish, but I like i...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After talking to tons of folks I finally found the cable hole. I was using a pink jig and got 2 steely. Not big but strong fights and leapers. we seen a few on the other side of reeter caught. lon...
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By: Hank
Posted: 8/13/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
No luck was a good day.
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Posted: 7/18/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the upper sky between high bridge to sultan. We started off with a crisis. We lost one of the oars just after big eddy and spent about 30 minutes trying to paddle with one oar to reach the on...
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Posted: 8/24/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had to work extra hours last weekend, so got a weekday off. Talked one of my buddies into trying a "double limit challenge". The idea was to hit the Sky for steel, then run down to the Snohomish and...
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Posted: 8/26/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river around 7am, was fishing the confluence of the Sky. and Sultan. Hooked 3 pinks, landed 2... Moved up river and plunked a bit and hooked 2, landed 1. Was having a lot of fun until the drun...
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By: sakhalex
Posted: 8/30/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Reiter from 6 till 8, nobody cought anything. Too low and clear. Spotted a couple of steelhead. Moved up to junction of N and S forks. Hooked 2 Pinks in 45 min. Need rain!!!
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Posted: 11/14/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky at sunup to see if I could find any winter steelhead yet. Nice day - overcast, light rain off & on water visability was not good (maybe 4'). Thought it would be colder/wetter. Hooked on...
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By: Teamtoyer
Posted: 11/20/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy wanted to try for steelies today so started the day at Reiters. Cold as hell and a little gust didnt help much. After about 1hr we decided to go to Al Borlin Park and see if we could land some ...
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Posted: 11/25/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Reiter for most of the day today. Tons of people, high water, and about 2 feet of visibility. No fish for me today.
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Posted: 11/30/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sky by the town of Startup. Floated eggs and caught 2 chums and let them go. Good fight. No Steelhead today did see the guy next to me catch a Steelhead. About a 7-8 pounder. Bright as...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/5/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skycomish at 1:00, put the ear buds in to catch the game, second cast bobber down. Nice steelhead on the bank. Over the next hour l landed 3 chums.Feeling good about the early action Idecide...
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Posted: 12/6/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cable Hole. No fish caught and no one catching anything yet. Very cold this morning. River was running very low about 5 feet high and clear. Try again next week :(
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By: Snoop
Posted: 12/8/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First one in the Reiter parking Lot wed morning. About 6:30 another truck showed up with two guys. For about 45 min there was only 3 of us fishing. I left at 9:00 with about 5 of us now fishing. Sa...
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Posted: 12/11/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty slow day up at reiter today. Only saw one fish caught on the highway side. One guy was walking out from way down below with a real nice fish but that was all the fish I saw. River was very low ...
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