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By: djw0414
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to give it a go this morning on the highway side of Reiter. Arrived before daybreak to a parking lot with a light coating of snow but manageable wind and rain. I usually head down to the cable...
By: disamatic17
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well decided to fish the old slot at the Lewis st. Bridge area, what a day! We got there at abot 530 AM. Started out throwing a fire orange triple teaser, 3rd cast fish on! With the nasty current in t...
By: deaddogduke
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky near Reiter starting around noon and tossed a number of setups into the river without any luck. The only fish I saw caught was in a guy's hand walking past me on my way to the River. Was...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got the offer to get off the bank and on the water for the day. We launched at Sultan and worked the river from there on up a ways past the Wallace. We got to the launch before light and it was rain...
By: schu7498
Posted: 12/7/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out to do our first winter steelhead fishing trip of the season. The weather did not disappoint. It rained, hailed, sleeted, and snowed. The fishing on the other hand.. We started the morn...
By: Alextron
Posted: 12/7/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My report today will come in three parts, a fishing report, a story, and a little rant. I'll make it clear which section is which so you can target your reading.
Fishing report:
Got up on super ...
By: TyeeMatt
Posted: 12/7/2012
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to where the Sky and Wallace meet and caught this beauty. Fought it for all of two minutes before I could muscle it ashore. Took me an equal amount of time to plyer my secret whitefish-killer ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/4/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7:30am to around 11am on the highway side of Reiter. Conditions were less than optimal - rain (and getting heavier as the morning progressed) and a rising river. Despite that, Nate managed...
By: Cozmo4196
Posted: 12/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Cable Hole from about 8am to noon. My buddy landed one Coho but other than that we got skunked. Floated jigs, roe and tossed spoons. The guys on the highway side of the hole seemed to have ...
By: Gringo Pescador
Posted: 12/2/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got a chance to hit the river this morning. Went with Kzoo and we weren't expecting much as the forecasts called for high winds and rain and the river was supposed to be on the rise. Got to the rive...
By: makscoot
Posted: 12/1/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/1/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Fished from 2-5pm near the Reformatory Channel.
I was the only guy there. drifted bober and eggs left over from the silver season.
No major take dwns in the big water. I few trout stealing ba...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 11/29/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
3 of us fished the pond area, both sides. Got 4 on shrimp between us. Nice day, rain and all!
By: RyanJamesHung
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped to check out the Sultan. fished at High Bridge, and finally fished a little higher on the Sky. Weren't taking jigs today, so I fell victim to my old ways and ended up spoon feeding a Steelie....
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Gringo Pescador and I drifted the Sky from Sultan to Monroe. With the river flow at 6,500 CFS starting the day it was a fast drift, done by 2pm.
We did find some fishy looking water and Gringo had ...
By: ilvcassidylake
Posted: 11/18/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 3
stop by the pick up some sand shrimp. The guy at the store that coho is done only chum left.............parked car by the little creek at alborlin park area. Walked on railroad track up stream. found...
By: BBlakley
Posted: 11/12/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Started out at mouth of Wallace, fished for a short time with no results. Went directly across from the mouth and fished a nice seam on the sky I saw guys out few days prior doing very well. Saw a few...
By: RyanJamesHung
Posted: 11/9/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Reiter at around 7:30 AM. Hit my first Summer Run at 8:00 AM; solid hookset on a spoon... too bad the hook set couldn't save me from rubbing my braid off on a rock! Darn... Ha ha :P
Fished ...
By: Bro-Rando
Posted: 11/8/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky at the mouth of the Wallace for a few hours this morning. It was super crowded in the area which I was a bit surprised by for a Thursday morning. Doesn't anyone work these days? Saw some p...
By: natetreat
Posted: 11/8/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Well, another stellar report for this week on the Skykomish! We've been catching hard fighting chum and feisty coho every day out. With the river conditions the way they are, we've been finding bright...
By: strider43
Posted: 11/5/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went to several locations on the Wallace hoping to find some Coho, with no luck there I proceeded the Sky near the mouth of the Wallace as I had read Nate’s report for last week indicating Chum were...
By: Cozmo4196
Posted: 11/5/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sultan boat launch at first light and headed up river near the mouth of the Wallace. First cast of the morning and my buddy lands a nice bright silver. The rest of the day was consistent light...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with Gringo Pescador today in search of steelhead. Gringo took me on a tour of some of his favorite holes from Reiter down. Our gear of choice was float rods and either jigs, or in my cas...
By: LiveAsYouWill
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 2
Had a couple hours to stop by Sky/Wallace confluence on way down from mountains. Once again, plenty of action and well worth the stop in Startup. Hit right across from Wallace-Mouth tressle parking lo...
By: ilvcassidylake
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Chum Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
found a nice hole and 3 nice guys fishing on the hole. they helped me out alot. caught my first chum in an hour while the guys were there. Then they left. an hour after they left i hooked another fat ...
By: tele_maniac
Posted: 11/4/2012
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Sky for a couple hours with my brother Gerry and friend Kyle. We were fishing below the mouth of the Sultan River. The water was really high, but the color wasn't too bad. Had about three feet...