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By: Snoop
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Reiter about 5:30. At 6:00am about 10 cars drove on down. Right away a guy at the inlet mouth hooked up. On ym first cast, bobber down and the fight was on. Brought in a beautiful Native abo...
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Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
No meetings scheduled this morning, so decided to hit Reiter. I arrived around 5:40 and was like the 6th or 7th car in line at the entrance. By the time 5:55 rolled around I would guess there were a...
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By: Flytrap
Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Fishing Big Ben right below Reiter Ponds on 6/3/2013. I had plenty of bites on a black & purple jig after fishing for a couple of hours I hooked a 22lb. Steelhead that took about 15 minutes to reel i...
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By: 83UFlyer
Posted: 6/3/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Spent a few hours at Al Borlin Park tossing flies around to see what might be around. There were 4 or 5 other anglers in the area but no one seemed to have much luck. I used a few nymphs, some dries...
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By: wbroekhof
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got to Rieter on the opener on June 1st at 10am after checking out the slow action for King's down in Sultan. The parking lot was crowded and most of the holes were taken. Went down to cable hole an...
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By: bugmasta
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went 3/4 on kings as a boat. Tons of boats in the water. Great way to open the season though.
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Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Reiters today at daybreak. Caught this nice 7.5# ocean bright hen at 7:00, then hooked and landed a burly 12# buck at 8:00. Water was high but clear. Used jigs under a float. I would have g...
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Posted: 2/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
OK, this is kind of a backposting, but I thought id post it in here for review! Ill preface it first by saying I used a wide angle on the video so yes, the fish seems smaller than it was....(yeah, I c...
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Posted: 2/12/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I hit the Sky on Sunday, He used float and jig hit one large Steelhead. An hour later he hit one more on spoons. Nothing for me until a hour before dark ,I finally hit one of about 16lbs...
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Posted: 2/11/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 10am until 1pm today. Started with a float and jig with no luck. Switched to rvrfisher spoon and hooked 1 fish aboout noon. The water is really low and clear. I saw 1 guy on the hwy ...
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Posted: 2/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, went up for one last dig for the season. conditions are good, no crowd. late afternoon/evening and all I had on the hatch side was myself and that native Blue Heron. 1 bobber down.............a...
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Posted: 2/10/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the afternoon up river on the HWY side of Reiter. River was up alittle and had some color. Fished the first spot and nothing. Moved up river to next hole my Son had shown me and switched to ...
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Posted: 2/9/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I ventured out for the evening bite one last time before the season ended. I arrived at 4pm and set up my float pole. The first cast draged the bottom at almost 7'. Instead of breaking off some leader...
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Posted: 2/2/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After reading about the netting schedule on the Skookumchuck, I decided, last minute this morning, to head to the Skykomish instead. Got my line in the water at the hatchery side of Rieter at 7:00 a.m...
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By: Fisher83
Posted: 2/1/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Reiter pond, looking for some steelie, but only heard reports that on highway side there was about 4 or 5 fish caught. On hatchery side, zippo! =( Spent 2 hours top with no fish or any take do...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 1/31/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well, you guys have been asking for pictures, I figured this was a good day to put some up. We had a stellar day on the Sky, we went 3/9 on nice steelhead. Lots of hookups, lots of current for them to...
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By: natetreat
Posted: 1/26/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well we wanted to find some out of the way spots on the river to hit, so we did the out of the way, hike in back country tour of the Sky. We hit some sweet water, the river had perfect color to it and...
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By: Alextron
Posted: 1/25/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to the Reiter Ponds on the hatchery side early in the morning. I had a bobber down on the third cast and landed a 5.56 lb hatchery hen. The fish hit right as it was getting light enough to fis...
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By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
On Saturday I spent all day on the Sky fishing with a buddy and managed to break off my first stealhead at the knot on my fluorocarbon leader. I swore off flouro in August after having knot issues, ...
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Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the trout hole around 10:00 started out with a half an half dicknite had no luck than I switched to a full nickel dick nite than first cast bam had a decent sized trout on my line he can out to...
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By: Mouchias
Posted: 1/20/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the river yesterday. After a couple of casts fish on! Lost that one but landed another hatchery buck 2 casts later. Dealt with him, rigged up again and 2 casts later Fish On! All in al...
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Posted: 1/15/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Weather cooperated, despite the recent cold it was not bad. Arrived 10:30, saw a couple people leaving with fish, saw one fish caught on highway side of Reiter. while we were there. We put in 3 hours...
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Posted: 1/14/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was a very slow day at Reiter. Saw one fish caught. Yet, such a beautiful day on the river. Fished floats and a variety of jigs tipped with prawn, no takers. Probably 6 or 7 fisherman on either sid...
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Posted: 1/13/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky on the highway side at Reiter, fishing from about 11:00 - 2:30. Despite the cold, choosing the side of the river not in the sun, and my absent minded gear mistake, it was a nice day even ...
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Posted: 1/13/2013
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Slept in today :) Glad I didn't have to battle the 25 degree conditions and wind this morning (thank you, Richard). Worked Reiter from head to toe! Hooked 5 Steelies, landed 1 hatchery, released 1....
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