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Posted: 12/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit High Bridge today with my friend Jim; he was swinging flies and I stuck with gear. Nothing there, saw Sean though! Headed up higher on the river; worked drift gear and was STOKED when I hooked up...
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Posted: 12/30/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped at the Sultan. Fished the Sultan. Stopped at the Wallace. Left the Wallace. Stopped at the Sky... Started with jigs (got bored). Fished drift gear (snagged). Threw on my favorite spoon ...
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By: Stansjoy
Posted: 1/1/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed for the Sky, hoping to get the New Year off to a rousing start! Got very, very cold! Temp at arrival, at 7:30 AM, was 25 degrees. On the river fishing, a bit before 8:00... fished just upstream...
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Posted: 1/5/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today and the past two trips in the last week have resulted in gross uter failer, i think im done with this river unless the fishgates open the hell up!!!...
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By: Snoop
Posted: 1/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I knew the weather was going to be bad, but today was my only chance this week to get on the river. We had the hatchery side at reiter all to ourselves untill about 7:30? By 9 am there was 5 of us o...
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Posted: 1/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day bright, well not so bright, and early and headed to the Wallace mouth on the sky. No cars parked at the parking lot so a little promising to find a good spot. Worked a few holes, float...
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Posted: 1/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Second time out this year and it was a blast. Fished the HWY side of Reiter and was not turned away by the snow falling. River was going down and it was a good choice. Running about 7 feet high wit...
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Posted: 1/13/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Slept in today :) Glad I didn't have to battle the 25 degree conditions and wind this morning (thank you, Richard). Worked Reiter from head to toe! Hooked 5 Steelies, landed 1 hatchery, released 1....
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Posted: 1/13/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky on the highway side at Reiter, fishing from about 11:00 - 2:30. Despite the cold, choosing the side of the river not in the sun, and my absent minded gear mistake, it was a nice day even ...
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Posted: 1/14/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a very slow day at Reiter. Saw one fish caught. Yet, such a beautiful day on the river. Fished floats and a variety of jigs tipped with prawn, no takers. Probably 6 or 7 fisherman on either sid...
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Posted: 1/15/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Weather cooperated, despite the recent cold it was not bad. Arrived 10:30, saw a couple people leaving with fish, saw one fish caught on highway side of Reiter. while we were there. We put in 3 hours...
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By: Mouchias
Posted: 1/20/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the river yesterday. After a couple of casts fish on! Lost that one but landed another hatchery buck 2 casts later. Dealt with him, rigged up again and 2 casts later Fish On! All in al...
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By: Hank
Posted: 9/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Cracker bar to test out the fly rod. Wasn't expecting any fish and didn't get any, but the Echo Ion with my Lamson #3 did not disappoint.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I've got good news and bad news. We have been finding fish in the Sky, but it's been tought to find willing takers. The Chinook run is cooling off, and the steelhead are spread out. With the riv...
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Posted: 10/23/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Reiter yesterday; tied up a couple of jigs the night before and proceeded to field test them :) Gringo, it was nice meeting you the other day; watching you wrench on that Steel the other...
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Posted: 1/3/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was packed with people today. I managed to find a spot and had two fish on but only landed one nice one. The highlight of the day was when I fished next to a guy that got pissed off at me for fishin...
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By: bbd
Posted: 1/6/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I personally didnt catch any fish but i saw 2 come out of the river and heard that reiter was hot tackle used to catch those two i saw was drifting a corky and yarn on the bottom through the shallow ...
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Posted: 1/6/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So today I only worked a few hrs and my boss told me to take the rest of the day off. I had forgot that I was going to help him move. He was moving to woodinville. After helping him I figured, I might...
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By: djw0414
Posted: 1/6/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the Skykomish today with two buddies. Started at Tualco and moved up to Al Borlin. We used drift gear, float/jig and fly gear with no luck. River was up a bit but the color was fine so kind of...
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By: Rob G.
Posted: 1/8/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally decided to see what all the fuss was about up at Reiter. I usually head south or to the coast for my fishin, but I got a homie who lives up north so Reiter it was. Got there just before sunri...
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Posted: 1/8/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished reiter today from about 12 to 3 no fish for me but saw a few fish caught. Lots of people.
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By: djw0414
Posted: 1/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skykomish on Sunday morning near Al Borlin park in Monroe with a buddy. We worked it pretty hard with a drift rig and float/jig with nothing but a whitefish to show for our efforts. Beautiful ...
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Posted: 1/10/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Cable Hole this morning and had one on. Could'nt tell if was a hatchery or not and took a little too long to figure it out and popped the hook after a little while. Within 5 minutes I had...
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Posted: 1/10/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Very quite this morning at Cable Hole. Only me and other guy on the pond side. Not even one hit. After about 2 hours the other guy down river hooks into a steelhead and lands that one. Then wi...
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Posted: 1/11/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the river just at dark and as soon as it was visible to see my hands I started to tie my leader. I started with a UV orange jig so that they could see it in the tad of light. I was excited to ...
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