Skykomish River

Method: Drift Fishing
Species: Steelhead
Conditions: Mostly Sunny
Time: Morning
Rating: 2
Views: 2033

Got to the hwy side of reiter and there were cars lines down the hwy. I parked and walked quite a ways down river to find a small spot with no luck. There were so many people fishing. Im not 100% on night closure but Im pretty sure you cant start till an hour before sunrise which would have been around 4:13AM and there were tons of people fishing at 3:30AM. There were people with headlamps out on rocks out in he river, so I figured all of the fish would be spooked, not to mention the crazy low water level.
After I walked back up to my truck to see about another 10 cars behind me, I headed down river to fish near the mouth of the wallace. I caught a chrome hatchery king about 6 lbs or so but quicky relased it since kings arent open according to the changed regs. I hooked into another 3 or so kings using barbless to ensure if I hooked one itd be easy to release. I floated using live sandshrimp and pink n white jigs, and drifted corkies and spoons, the kings hit the spoons. There we many kings jumping, most very chrome, but no steelhead.


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