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By: bkawafishin
Posted: 6/11/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started out by the high bridge early this morning. Nobody else was around and the water looked super fishy. Alas, after throwing everything but the kitchen sink, not a single bite.
Moved up to Re...
By: Kokaholic
Posted: 6/23/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing Reiter at 6am along with the rush of 40 plus people third cast fish on then gone! Crap! Most fish being taken on hatchery side by plunking. When leaving I counted 5 fish on bank betwe...
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 6/24/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to the river this morning and with the second cast landed this native. She wasn’t as big as last week’s, but still beautiful and a great fight. This is the same jig that got my other one last ...
By: SilverSlayer
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After a three week dry spell I finally struck steel at Reiter tonight.This bright hen took down my fourth jig change, a purple and pink w florescent pink head. I tried pink, peach, a pink worm, plus ...
By: RichieRich
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...
By: spoonman
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went up river after work to my usual spot. Floated jigs with no luck. So I switched over to my drift rod and started tossing yarnies, a couple casts in and I caught a really pretty little cutthroat. A...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by 3 Rivers to look at a couple boats. They had a kids pond set up and BlueRock was volunteering. She is buds with my daughter so the two quickly had a line in the water. My kid takes after...
By: Mordalphus
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Woohoo! I got my first damn steelhead takedown! Fought that bastard for a minute then snap! Busted off my jig!
Dammit! It was huge and chrome too, I was running 12 pound leader, but I guess my d...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After being buried in a new job and then taking a month long vacation I am starting to get back into the groove. One thing I needed was to punch my 1st steelhead on my new card.
Got to the river abo...
By: Mordalphus
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I don't know what I'm doing wrong at this point, haha. I hit the river at 4:25 this morning, worked a half mile stretch in sultan with some decent looking fishy holes. I saw one fish hop out of t...
By: wbroekhof
Posted: 7/14/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at cable hole at 6am with a float and jig. Slow morning and then around 9am as the sun started coming out over the river the float goes down. Had a great fight with the fish going airb...
By: fishbiker
Posted: 7/18/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
had to go to the dentist in lake stevens yesterday, since I moved to kennydale the traffic sucks, so I decided to hit the sky, got to the hatery and walked down found a spot, saw a couple fish hooked,...
By: wbroekhof
Posted: 7/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to go out this morning and brought my daughter along with. she's been seeing the fish I've been bringing home and wanted to join in on the action :). We got to Reiter around 7:30am and went down ...
By: BootLegger
Posted: 7/22/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I have been fishing steelhead for 45 years with better than average success
I'm talking hooking 5 fish on a single trip as no big deal even when no one
else is catching and or hooking anything.
On...
By: drysuperfly52
Posted: 7/27/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I finally after 9 years of trying and 8.5 hours of baking in the sun today I got my steelhead, not really that big. gutted it weighs 5.8lbs but what a fight with a couple great jumps. i am now hooked ...
By: duckpicker
Posted: 7/28/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got this unlucky nat this morning, tried to get a pick as quick as I could so I could send her on her way unharmed.
By: natetreat
Posted: 7/31/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow. The Skykomish is at my all time favorite stage. Low and clear! And there are TONS of fish in it. The bite has been great, when the sun comes out, that's when you really need to have what it takes...
By: Steelheadin360
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Literally had an hour to fish this morning, and trying to figure out a quick location to get to where i could pound alot of water i went to Rieter (highway side). Second cast with my Joels Jigs Wingd...
By: natetreat
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2013
Hot Spots: 1
It’s been a great couple of weeks. Warm weather, low water and lots and lots of fish. The Skykomish has been amazing for steelhead. There are a lot of fish in the river right now, and they are aggress...
By: joeskayak
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple hours after work trying to be sneaky and creep up on some of those summer-runs on the upper Sky (above Reiter). Started with alternating between small nightmare and orange jig under a f...
By: natetreat
Posted: 8/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Holy cow! Fishing has been fantastic! We're catching fish left and right out here. Small and stealthy is the key, I know, I keep saying it, but it's the truth. Stand back and stand low and these summe...
By: luisdabeast206
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
With everyone going after pinks, I thought I would try and somehow catch one more steelhead. With the water being low and gin clear I knew I would be in for a battle. I fished various amounts of are...
By: wbroekhof
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't been out for a while and had the same idea as luisdabeast206. Water was low and clear so I tried float fishing with light flouro leaders and clear floats with no luck. I also tried spinners...
By: wbroekhof
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day off fishing Reiter (Highway Side) at 6:30am at cable hole. Started float fishing and hooked into a hen after about 30 minutes. No acrobatics from her, she stayed down at first then sta...
By: RichieRich
Posted: 7/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fly fished the Sky, hit 1. bad pic
