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By: Sthao92
Posted: 8/18/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the skykomish today not expecting to catch much but boy did i catch a surprise. Started out with a float and bait and caught a few smaller trout and even got a jack king, i let them all go...
By: NimmunDay
Posted: 8/20/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day today, even though i didnt catch any fish. Arived at the Sultan river mouth at about 6:30. Didnt get much action on pink corkies and yarn. So my dad tried a silver Krocodile spoon with...
By: natetreat
Posted: 8/20/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, we did okay today. A quick afternoon trip turned out alright, we got one fish into shore. Just when you thought the river couldn't drop anymore it went down another foot. Using six pound test le...
By: NimmunDay
Posted: 8/22/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried drifting a jig and shrimp under a dink float, to no avail. Then i tried a 3/8 oz Chartruse jig, no float. I got a follow from foot long whitefish. Casted about 25 more times and a 10lb or so kin...
By: Guzdaman
Posted: 8/28/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Saw 4 of them hanging out below the railroad bridge at the Gold Bar big eddie access. Threw everything I had at them (Eggs, sand shrimp, trout beads, yarn flies, and a vibrax) couldnt get them to bite...
By: natetreat
Posted: 8/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well Lady and I had a few hours to ourselves and headed up to the Upper Skykomish, and I'm glad we did. Just when you thought the river couldn't get any lower it does, but it still has fish.
We wa...
By: joechiro30
Posted: 10/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well...took the day off because it was my 35th bday yesterday and I wanted to treat myself to a full day of fishing. I wanted to hook into some steelhead so checked the water levels for the sky and i...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 10/21/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Now that the lower river salmon are winding down, some friends wanted to see if the rains brought in any steelhead up higher in the system. It is about a month early for winters but maybe we could fi...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Gringo Pescador today in search of steelhead. Gringo took me on a tour of some of his favorite holes from Reiter down. Our gear of choice was float rods and either jigs, or in my cas...
By: RyanJamesHung
Posted: 11/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Reiter at around 7:30 AM. Hit my first Summer Run at 8:00 AM; solid hookset on a spoon... too bad the hook set couldn't save me from rubbing my braid off on a rock! Darn... Ha ha :P
Fished ...
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday I spent all day on the Sky fishing with a buddy and managed to break off my first stealhead at the knot on my fluorocarbon leader. I swore off flouro in August after having knot issues, ...
By: Alextron
Posted: 1/25/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the Reiter Ponds on the hatchery side early in the morning. I had a bobber down on the third cast and landed a 5.56 lb hatchery hen. The fish hit right as it was getting light enough to fis...
By: natetreat
Posted: 1/26/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well we wanted to find some out of the way spots on the river to hit, so we did the out of the way, hike in back country tour of the Sky. We hit some sweet water, the river had perfect color to it and...
By: natetreat
Posted: 1/31/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, you guys have been asking for pictures, I figured this was a good day to put some up. We had a stellar day on the Sky, we went 3/9 on nice steelhead. Lots of hookups, lots of current for them to...
By: Fisher83
Posted: 2/1/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Reiter pond, looking for some steelie, but only heard reports that on highway side there was about 4 or 5 fish caught. On hatchery side, zippo! =( Spent 2 hours top with no fish or any take do...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 2/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After reading about the netting schedule on the Skookumchuck, I decided, last minute this morning, to head to the Skykomish instead. Got my line in the water at the hatchery side of Rieter at 7:00 a.m...
By: 4steelhead
Posted: 2/9/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I ventured out for the evening bite one last time before the season ended. I arrived at 4pm and set up my float pole. The first cast draged the bottom at almost 7'. Instead of breaking off some leader...
By: bankfisher
Posted: 2/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the afternoon up river on the HWY side of Reiter. River was up alittle and had some color. Fished the first spot and nothing. Moved up river to next hole my Son had shown me and switched to ...
By: ripsomelip
Posted: 2/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, went up for one last dig for the season. conditions are good, no crowd. late afternoon/evening and all I had on the hatch side was myself and that native Blue Heron. 1 bobber down.............a...
By: chromehunter
Posted: 2/11/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 10am until 1pm today. Started with a float and jig with no luck. Switched to rvrfisher spoon and hooked 1 fish aboout noon. The water is really low and clear. I saw 1 guy on the hwy ...
By: RichieRich
Posted: 2/12/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I hit the Sky on Sunday, He used float and jig hit one large Steelhead. An hour later he hit one more on spoons. Nothing for me until a hour before dark ,I finally hit one of about 16lbs...
By: ripsomelip
Posted: 2/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
OK, this is kind of a backposting, but I thought id post it in here for review! Ill preface it first by saying I used a wide angle on the video so yes, the fish seems smaller than it was....(yeah, I c...
By: SilverSlayer
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Reiters today at daybreak. Caught this nice 7.5# ocean bright hen at 7:00, then hooked and landed a burly 12# buck at 8:00. Water was high but clear. Used jigs under a float. I would have g...
By: Mike Carey
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 ...
By: RyanJamesHung
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped to check out the Sultan. fished at High Bridge, and finally fished a little higher on the Sky. Weren't taking jigs today, so I fell victim to my old ways and ended up spoon feeding a Steelie....
