Skykomish River

Air Temp: 41° - 45°
Method: Drift Fishing
Species: Steelhead
Bait: Shrimp
Color: Pink
Conditions: Cloudy
Tackle: Corky & Yarn
Time: All Day
Rating: 4
Views: 3319

Got out on the sky Saturday with my buddy and one of my cousins to try and nail some steelhead. We put in at high bridge and leap frogged with 5-6 boats all the way down to the sultan. To kick it off my buddy caught his very first steelhead after two years of trying right underneath the bridge, turned out to be a beautiful 15 lb native buck! Put up an awesome fight and almost forced us to chase him down the rapids, after he gave up we kindly released him back. Next one was caught 30 min later from behind a boulder, absolute textbook fishing from my buddy, fought for a few minutes with a few Ariel acrobatics and made it to the boat to get bonked. The last two fish we caught were very surprising. Mine was caught side drifting out in the middle of the river in water that really didn't seem fishy at all, just bowling ball sized rocks in really slow big water. And the last fish was caught while we were anchored in the middle of the river probably half way down the drift. We were setting up the rods with new leaders and lead and my cousin happened to let a plug out without telling us and within two minutes he was yelling fish on and to our disbelief had a nice 6lb hatchery. Was a fantastic day!


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