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Skykomish River Report
Snohomish County, WA

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02/07/2012
Float Fishing
Steelhead
Jig
Morning
02/07/2012
3
2595

Worked some extra hours last week so got to flex a day off this week. Had stuff to do in the afternoon so I ran up to the Sky to see what was happening. Wind started about Sultan and just got stronger the farther east I went. Hit the river about 7:30am. Wind made it tough to cast and mend your line, but I was on the river and not at work - so I was staying.

1st fish hit about 8am, bobber down and had to do a double hookset because I had to give so much of my line to the wind for a natural float. But he still stuck. A little buck with a little blush to it. If it had been my 2nd fish I probably wouldn've let him go. But it was my 1st non-native fish of 2012, so I bonked it.

2nd one was a larger/brighter hen. I actually had finished my drift and just started to reel in when I felt weight on my line, set the hook and fish on! Guy just downstream of me casted over and got hung up on my line, but realized it in time and just let his freespool until I got mine in. Payed him back with some of my cured prawns and about 10 minutes later, netted his fish.

Limit by 8:30am Whodathunkit! I never even changed jigs, broke out my 2nd rig or changed rocks.


Comments

Anonymous
2/7/2012 6:47:00 PM
Awesome report and pic!!
Augwen
2/7/2012 7:26:00 PM
That is a good way to start a New Year....
Acefishon
2/7/2012 9:19:00 PM
is that a creek to a hatchury you are standing in
Gringo Pescador
2/7/2012 9:22:00 PM
Acefishon - no, that would be a pool of water between two boulders
Toni
2/7/2012 9:55:00 PM
Very nice.
djw0414
2/8/2012 6:31:00 AM
Great job and perfect way to flex time and still get things done. Tough to get a 5 star day out of you if a limit in an hour doesn't qualify. ;)
djw0414
2/8/2012 6:54:00 AM
Great job and perfect way to flex time and still get things done. Tough to get a 5 star day out of you if a limit in an hour doesn't qualify. ;)
Gringo Pescador
2/8/2012 7:44:00 AM
Not a 5-star day just because of the wind really, and the 1st fish was tired, not much of a fight in him. What was different for me was the buck had a little color to it, the hen was bright but the hen's meat was lighter in color than the bucks. I would have predicted the opposite.
steven23
2/8/2012 11:18:00 AM
Where were you fishing up there?
Gringo Pescador
2/8/2012 11:26:00 AM
Above Highway 2 bridge and below confluence of North and South forks..
Salmon Slayer
2/8/2012 9:36:00 PM
Glad to see their still pulling them out. Where do you park to get down there
oldredmohican
2/10/2012 12:36:00 AM
Very nice fish and report;)
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