Huge Wild Summer Steelhead

[RiverChromeGS]

Fished the cascade today, hooked and landed a few nice chinook! all wild, and in the morning i also nailed this HUGE Wild Summer Run, the fish is easy 15 pounds, the pic doesnt do it justice, had to hold it low and down to keep him in the water, check it out!

[OFFDAAHOOK]

Fished the cascade today, hooked and landed a few nice chinook! all wild, and in the morning i also nailed this HUGE Wild Summer Run, the fish is easy 15 pounds, the pic doesnt do it justice, had to hold it low and down to keep him in the water, check it out!

big steelhat fo sho...freak are yo sure dat a summer run not a super late winter ..of and leave those spawning steelhat alone hahahahaha

[RiverChromeGS]

Hahaha yea dammit LEAVE THEM ALONE. Ha. Anyway. Its hard to tell man. The thing is... The cascade has like zero wild winter runs, i caught 86 steelhead in cascade this year and ZERO were wild. And i know all cascade summers are wild. But you would think summers would be super chrome right now so idk. One guy said skagit summers are really early, like may, so probably a summer that entered in may, but who knows!

But remember leave the spawning steelheads alone ok??

[Brat Bonker]

Sorry but I have to call BS that the cascade has 0 wilds, I have seeb a huge school of around 30 nates in febuary once and hooked some as well. Plus that is a late spawning winter, too fat to be a summer run and summers actually return to the upper cascade around August and september.
Good catch nonetheless

[natetreat]

I think I've caught that one before Freak. They've been hanging out in the river and there were some bigguns in there. I'm guessing that they're winter run on their way down though, summers won't be spawning until well into October. Gorgeous fish though!

[RiverChromeGS]

Yea i guess when u think about it your never on the cascade when nates come in because it closes in febuary with everything else, so its gotta be a winter

[RiverChromeGS]

Sorry but I have to call BS that the cascade has 0 wilds, I have seeb a huge school of around 30 nates in febuary once and hooked some as well. Plus that is a late spawning winter, too fat to be a summer run and summers actually return to the upper cascade around August and september.
Good catch nonetheless

Yea makes sense, they come in after it closes, but its not BS when i tell you zero of my 86 were wild, not even a misclip!

[natetreat]

We've caught a few nates out of their in the time that we've fished the river since the kings opener, some of them were pretty darn bright. So I think that there are summers mixing in with the leftover winters. The winter run must be a little late, but the Skagit has wild fish, and the Cascade is perfect spawning grounds.

[Kockmandoo]

danny, we also didnt fish the river after january and never fished above the hatchery which is only the first mile of the river. remember talking to that guy who said he caught a 40 inch native under the rockport cascade bridge? The natives probably dont like to mess around below the hatchery and shoot straight through.

[RiverChromeGS]

Yea i dunno, they usually like to school up together, but thr last day i fished it was like feb 10 and nates in the sauk and stuff dont come in until like mid march. With all the dark steel ive seen since june 1st, must be a decent wild run in cascade!

[Brat Bonker]

Yeah those nates start showing early feb and shoot up to the deeper holes and cover upstream but I have hooked one at the mouth of the hatchery creek once on a pink worm but spit the hook. There are a set of cascades/falls way upstream of the bridge that they all school up at and I have watched chrome summers just start jumping like crazy before, pretty cool but they are really picky eaters.

[RiverChromeGS]

too bad they close it or id go fish the upper for um in march and april with spoons and stuff. Dangg