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By: Maurice
Posted: 6/11/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sky with a guide I go with several times a year. Met up with him at 6AM in Sultan and fished the river until 4, We fished from just above the mouth of the wallace to just below the campgrou...
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Posted: 8/7/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Put in at Sultan at about 5:30am. Just enough light to see a number of Kings rolling right out front. There were a few other driftboats and one sled (guide) that launched. From what I could see, all...
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Posted: 9/29/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Fished from Sultan down to Lewis. The water is very low, but a drift boat can still make it with little trouble. We launched at 6:15, very few fish rolling out front. Only one other boat out just a...
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Posted: 10/19/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/18/2012
Hot Spots: 3
We hit the Sky from the mouth of Sultan and up to the next bridge. When we got there, we looked at USGS. 2600Cfps. Water clarity was very nice. It seemed like "the day" to be there finally. Three of u...
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Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Gringo Pescador and I drifted the Sky from Sultan to Monroe. With the river flow at 6,500 CFS starting the day it was a fast drift, done by 2pm. We did find some fishy looking water and Gringo had ...
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Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got the offer to get off the bank and on the water for the day. We launched at Sultan and worked the river from there on up a ways past the Wallace. We got to the launch before light and it was rain...
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By: jonb
Posted: 10/18/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Best day of fishing I've ever had. Hit a new stretch of the sky I Havnt hit before. Just exploring., I found a hole, no one,around, tight seem stacked with fish >:) I started off tossing a pink/purple...
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Posted: 9/21/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/21/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning below the 522 bridge at Lord Hill in Monroe. There was a lot of surface activity, Silvers jumping everywhere but no one was hooking up. I tried the usual, dick nite, Blue Fox and eve...
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By: racfish
Posted: 11/21/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/21/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Two of us were plunking the Skykomish rive. The river wasn't bad other then it was still muddy. I was fishing about 10 feet of shore. All morning was nothing. At 1:30 I start packing it in when my bel...
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Posted: 6/25/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Floated the Skykomish River yesterday with Nate Treat and my brother Gerry. Had a blast from the get go! First off any day on this beautiful river is a good day whether there are fish involved or not....
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By: leo
Posted: 10/16/2014
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Will try to keep this report as short as possible. Target species for the day for us were sea run cutthroat trout. Me, my brother and my wife went down to few of my favorite spots on the Stilly river ...
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Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Chinook are in! With a mixed bag of wild (all released) and hatchery (released to the cooler) fish it was a fairly good day on the water. Sat on bait divers with a egg/sandshrimp cocktail most of ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/19/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
went to reiter today, wow talk about some serious snow. Saw about 20 cars, surprised how many cars because i thought i was the only crazy fisherman to drive in the snow. Didnt catch much, never do, st...
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Posted: 12/22/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out to Reiter Ponds about 1pm. Haven't fished in a few months, ended up messing around with my gear more than fishing. Saw one fish leave on a stringer, no other action. Water was low and c...
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By: SAPIplate
Posted: 9/2/2009
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Skykomish for Pinks today,about a mile above the Ben Howard Launch. I hooked 6-7, landed 3. All the fish I landed/saw were females except one. This was slightly unusual to say the least. Al...
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Posted: 6/4/2009
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the local fly shop and talked to the owner and he said this time of year would be good for some spring steel heading, so my buddy and i headed up to the sky and the river was super high, and m...
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By: fshnjon
Posted: 10/12/2009
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I are novice fly fisher people , so decided to get in some practice casting on the Sky . not really targeting any species , but trying for mabe a silver ...... Foul hooked some UGLY pinks an...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Sky just above the Tualco Loop launch from 8:00 - 9:30 Labor day morning. There were plenty of pinks in the river and they were cooperating. After I figured out that a floating fly line wit...
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Posted: 11/2/2008
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit my favorite hole for chums today with one of my friends. With in 5 min i had a nice 5 pound hen hooked up and landed it. Landed 2 fair hooked fish and probably 20 foul hooked. I lost around 15 fai...
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Posted: 12/6/2008
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the sky near the wallace Friday afternoon. I was using a sink tip line with a chilli teeny nymph. Had this nice one salter hit and that was it for the day. It was a native so I released it un...
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Posted: 6/14/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I CAUGHT MY VERY FIRST STEELHEAD!!!!!! It was a wild summer run steelhead. It was 28 inches long, and it look like it weighed 9 or 10 pounds. I also hooked what looked like a jack chinook salmon.
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Posted: 12/22/2011
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I'm a river fishing noob, so really didn't have any idea what I was doing. To no surprise, no fish caught today. There were some nice spots where there were riffles and eddies along the banks so I cas...
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By: Cascadian
Posted: 9/17/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I bout my first spey rod last night so I was itching to take it out and swing some streamers. Got to the Tualco Loop spot at 4pm and noticed the ever was swollen about 1.5 feet from where it was a fe...
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Posted: 6/28/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Made it to the Sky with fly rod in hand. First run I fished I found no takers, not even a sniff..... Two hours later I found myself at my goto spot.... Not feeling to optimistic at that point but swin...
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Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fly fished the Sky, hit 1. bad pic
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