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By: jpjames14
Posted: 6/23/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has definitely slowed as far as the kings go. I fished my favorite spot again lower river... Nobody around the whole morning, which is why it's my favorite, but TONS of boats. Fished the upp...
By: gonnahookit
Posted: 6/22/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a day at Reiter.
Got in line bright and early this morning, only to wach some guy run like the devil was on his heels as soon as he parked. Never saw him catch anything, for his efforts...
By: chaosfisherman
Posted: 6/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the hatchery around 10:30 and fished on the left of the creek because the right side was packed. Fished there without any luck for around an hour so we left to the cable hole. The water was ver...
By: Fisher83
Posted: 6/19/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Did okay for a slow fish day...water was down and so maybe that was why less fish in the water. I guess I and 2 other were the only lucky bait casters today. Not much fish in. Try really hard with bob...
By: RichieRich
Posted: 6/19/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky on Tuesday with my fly rod in hand and the Steelhead were good and grabby. Once they located my fly they smothered it in love. Hit 3, landed 2, released all to swim again.... In all the us...
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Reiter this AM as a fathersday present from my 9 yr old son , best fathersday ever ..
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Money Creek and got an early start on the Skykomish on Friday morning. I landed my first native steelhead at 8am...a beautiful fish that my buddy and I figured was a late winter run in the ...
By: Mordalphus
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to get a steelhead today, went through a container of eggs and only got one take, but wasn't able to set the hook.
I saw one guy get a fish, looked like he was using bobber and red jig.
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By: wbroekhof
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Reiter on the highway side and fished cable hole in the morning mostly with a float and jig. The day was very slow with one fish taken on the hatchery side. Tried spoon fishing for a while with...
By: divankovich2003
Posted: 6/16/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fish the Skykomish hard from noon till about 8:00 PM. Had essentially no luck with four of us fishing hard from a jet boat. Sounded like just about everybody else on the river had the same experience...
By: kevin14
Posted: 6/11/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished out of my kayak and hooked up just below sultan while bobber doggin eggs. It was a massive takedown almost took the rod from my hands! It surfaced and took off and after fighting it for like 5 ...
By: bkawafishin
Posted: 6/11/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started out by the high bridge early this morning. Nobody else was around and the water looked super fishy. Alas, after throwing everything but the kitchen sink, not a single bite.
Moved up to Re...
By: soundbite23
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched the boat in Monroe at the Lewis street launch, and fished down river. Free Drifted most of the day and spent a half hour back trolling and caught a nice 24" dolly. Fished with my wife and kid...
By: natetreat
Posted: 6/10/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Wow! What a week! The sun is out, the snow is melting and bringing in fresh river rockets from the salt. We’ve been fishing the Skykomish hard for steelhead and springers, and it’s been a lot of fun. ...
By: Mordalphus
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got up at 4, headed down to sultan to try and get one of those springers I've been hearing about, or maybe a steelhead.
I had pumped up about 40 sand shrimp and had some cured skeins, went throu...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning at the Sky and picked up another smaller but scrappy king, around 8-10 pounds I'm guessing, and much brighter when it first came out of the water. Had another great take down that d...
By: Nwangler
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Brother and I did a drift on the Skykomish from Sultan to Ben Howard for Spring Kings. Beautiful day but no bites. There was a guy fishing from his house on the river and he said there were no fish...
By: disamatic17
Posted: 6/9/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the skykomish up in the Startup area. Was throwing jigs under a float tipped with a single cranberry. I was told this old trick from a old timer that used to fish the Lewis street bridge spot i...
By: divankovich2003
Posted: 6/8/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/8/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Was third in line at Reiter at 5:30am. Raced down to the water when it opened at 6:00am and was fishing by 6:05am. Literally saw someone hook a fish on the first cast of the day (in a hole that I ha...
By: Mordalphus
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful evening, I was fishing in sultan, didn't catch anything but saw a Chinook jump! I was just drifting eggs, couldn't entice anything to eat them.
Fished from about 6:30 to 8:30.
By: RyanJamesHung
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day was amazing... Limited on Brass Spoons and Silver Teardrops.
The bite started at 5:00 AM and didn't stop for a long time. First picture was from this Steelie that gave me hell on Tuesd...
By: Snoop
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Third day in a row at reiter. Super slow today. Saw 4 fish caught. I hooked up about 8:30 with a super skinny, dark, red stripped, barley any life left in him, native. A quick release and he swam of...
By: jpjames14
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the river after work with kgowens. First day of river fishing this season so I headed to my favorite hole on the Sky. Fishing was pretty slow. We were drifting eggs through a couple deep pocket...
By: Djjohnson
Posted: 6/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Float fished most of the morning with no luck. Seen a few caught on the hatchery side tho. So I switched to drift fishing and nailed MY FIRST STEELHEAD EVER!!! Wow, well that's why this is a 5star day...
By: Snoop
Posted: 6/6/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another early morning at Reiter. Same story, as yesterday, except double or more the amount of guys, and a little slower fishing. About ten fish caught that I saw again today, but over a longer perio...