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Posted: 8/30/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Fished with a bobber and jig tipped with prawn on the island above Hansens. Had 7 on landed 4. Fished for two hours. Not a bad day for the first time out fishing for pinks on the Sky. Glad to see the ...
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Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with a friend that needed fish for his smoker. I spent 82 minutes fishing, it was kind of slow though, came in waves. However, not all out there were catching fish, no specific location neede...
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By: coughie
Posted: 8/29/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Sky with a couple buddies Wednesday afternoon. Went 6/7 in about 3 hours. Locked into a 7lb buck that gave me a great run! I took my limit to be smoked. For only being my third day o...
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By: oneshot
Posted: 8/28/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Crazy fish day!! I went on an video shoot assignment today, fishing with a local guide to make a promotional video for the guides business and in between shots I fished. we fished close to the pris...
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By: jonb
Posted: 8/28/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took the boss out to the hole I discovered the other day (below Lewis street) 10 minutes after arrival my boss tells fish on big 5lb hen to the net. Next I got a hen a little smaller but even brighter...
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Posted: 8/28/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the Reformatory Hole on the Sky around 7:00 this morning. Fished for an hour with jig/prawn under a float with no luck. Had a few small schools come through. Switched to a straight jig and hooked ...
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By: jonb
Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished a hole below Lewis street bridge (not the prison hole). I saw alot of fish jumping as I got there, I tried a jig under a float with shrimp scented pautzki eggs for scent, no luck. I changed o...
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Posted: 8/27/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took Oneshot's advice and floated from the Lewis St. Bridge to Candy Park. What a float! I took a newbie out and had a great time. She caught her first salmon on a pink jig. I caught 6 all on spoons. ...
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By: Cozmo4196
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Want to know the best thing about a pink run? Less pressure on summer steelhead! Woke up early Saturday and decided to join everyone other person from Seattle on the Snohomish chasing pink. After chan...
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By: robobergz
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning, for my Bday with my son and morning was really slow casting from shore, a few fish caught but nothing great so moved upstream, where ironically it was less crowded and BOOM, man...
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By: racfish
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 2
We saw 1 huge school come by us in the morn. A few smaller schools came by but the fish were not hitting very much. we started at the Prison hole but the only areas to fish were down the 90 degree hil...
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Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fishin the sky lately and Ive been having some really good outings. With the pinks its all about finesse and timing the bite. I caught 13 Friday in 3 hours and 8 today (24th) when nobody else around...
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By: rpbfishin
Posted: 8/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the reformatory hole for pinks today, not a single bite. I don't know what I was doing wrong, because everybody around us was catching fish like crazy. We tried everything from plunking sa...
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Posted: 8/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I tried the Sky after trying the Snohomish at Langus. Had no luck on the Snohomish, but the Skykomis was kinder to me. I hooked into 3 and landed 1. Got broke off by one, shook off by another when he ...
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Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the prison run yesterday late afternoon. Not many jumping/rolling but there were some fish in the river and we did alright for my first time out this year. My son caught 2 before I got there aroun...
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By: Flytrap
Posted: 8/19/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I thought we would go up river to fish steelhead since the pinks aren't in that heavy yet. We tried a new spot up river from Reiter Ponds. We hiked down to the river to check it out and wo...
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Posted: 8/19/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from Lewis Street down to Doug Bar. Had the whole family out today (wife, 8yo daughter, 3yo son). We didn't launch at Lewis until about 8:30. Saw several small groups of fish pushing through...
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By: fisherben
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
We fished high and low today. At around 1 pm we hiked a good distance along a creek and found our way to a giant pool with an almost perfect depth to flow ratio; some of the absolute best water I've e...
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By: wbroekhof
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't been out for a while and had the same idea as luisdabeast206. Water was low and clear so I tried float fishing with light flouro leaders and clear floats with no luck. I also tried spinners...
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Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
With everyone going after pinks, I thought I would try and somehow catch one more steelhead. With the water being low and gin clear I knew I would be in for a battle. I fished various amounts of are...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 8/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Holy cow! Fishing has been fantastic! We're catching fish left and right out here. Small and stealthy is the key, I know, I keep saying it, but it's the truth. Stand back and stand low and these summe...
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By: joeskayak
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple hours after work trying to be sneaky and creep up on some of those summer-runs on the upper Sky (above Reiter). Started with alternating between small nightmare and orange jig under a f...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2013
Hot Spots: 1
It’s been a great couple of weeks. Warm weather, low water and lots and lots of fish. The Skykomish has been amazing for steelhead. There are a lot of fish in the river right now, and they are aggress...
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Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Literally had an hour to fish this morning, and trying to figure out a quick location to get to where i could pound alot of water i went to Rieter (highway side). Second cast with my Joels Jigs Wingd...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 7/31/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow. The Skykomish is at my all time favorite stage. Low and clear! And there are TONS of fish in it. The bite has been great, when the sun comes out, that's when you really need to have what it takes...
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