I want to write this because I've only been in WA for 3 years and imagine there are newbies like me.

The Snohomish River is my home site. I don't have an ocean going boat. I finally caught salmon last year cause almost anyone can catch pinks. However, I caught 17 silvers too. I sure had fun. This state has amazing fishing opportunities that could be taken for granted by old timers.

Since I caught silvers I started wondering about Summer steelhead. They must go up the Snohomish, AND I don't have a jet boat so I tried around the Pilchuck area. I went out a couple of times and saw no one there. That was a bad sign. However, I've got a great fishfinder and saw a lot of fish in the deeper channels.

I tried all of the tricks I've learned by reading this site, magazines and the local fishing stores. No secret, the steelies and kings must go through the area I went to and I could see fish. However, only causght 1 native, juvenile steelhead on a brass Mepps. I also had one bump on my 3.5 cherise maglip wrapped with a little herring. I wasn't fishing for kings cause you can't by law. I also tried sand shrimp on pink and orange corkie spinners.

I've read the steelies are the fish of a thousand casts and seems appropriate from what I've read and seen myself.

My question is - are the fish so intent on moving to the Sky that they can't be caught in the Snohomish? Is that why no one is out there fishing?

thanks,

snatchinglips

6/21/2014 1:16:00 PM

Some people are fishing the snohomish,you just Have to know where. You can also catch snoqualmie river steelhead to. You can't eke the kings in the snohomish,but you can keep them in the sky. That's why everyone is fishing the sky because you can keep both in there. Eggs and sand shrimp combination works too.

spoonman

6/22/2014 5:30:00 AM

Some people have mastered taking steel out of the Snohomish. Im not one of them.These hatchery steelhead race straight to the hatchery once they hit freshwater. My only success down low has been to plunk in a traveling lane. A spin n glow, or as Snohomish folks call them a wing bobber, with some sand shrimp and a pyramid weight.

Goldrigger1

6/22/2014 5:49:00 AM

Thanks guys. My instincts said to go fish the bank in the Sky but I have a bad knee right now. I kept thinking of all the rivers these fish travel to get to "home base" and people catch them there. I thought if I lay a deep running lure or spin and glo with shrimp in their way I'd get something. Just a 13" native. Maybe I misplayed it because I caught silvers there. One thing I saw was lots of smolts all over in the frog water.

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