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Will try to keep this report as short as possible. Target species for the day for us were sea run cutthroat trout. Me, my brother and my wife went down to few of my favorite spots on the Stilly river but river was blown out so decided to hit Skykomish river. On my way to the sky was passing Lake Roesiger and decided to stop by to do a few casts. First cast and pretty much every cast all of us had a fish on. (Used gold size 0 mepps spinner and various colors of 1/8oz Kastmaster lures ). They were pretty small size rainbows, around 7-8" C&R. My brother managed to catch a cutthroat, was about 13" (see video) and what was interesting about it it looked like a sea run cut in the lake. The back was green and the fins were orange like, so possibly it could be a sea run cutthroat that was caught in this lake. As I looked up on the map it shows that this lake has a few creeks flow into it. Anyway headed to Skykomish river, conditions were good , seen quiet a few jumpers there. My brother caught a decent size cutthroat, carefully handled and released, I threw a variety of spoons, spinners/spinner flies and not a single bite for me. Decided to switch to bottom bouncing with a night crawler and got a solid strike, Fish on! It was a good 10-15 minute fight, I couldn't see what I had on until 15 minutes later till I barely got it to the shore, (since I was only using a 6# test and 8# leader ) but feeling the fight of the fish from experience I knew it wasn't a silver but possibly a steelhead. But to my surprise it was a big buck chum! Safely measured it in the water, unharmed and released. Measured it at 33" exactly, estimated weight from 15-20 lbs. what's interesting to me is every time I don't bring a net with me always seem to hook into big fish. (As also last week on the sky, went for trout fishing without a net, and hooked into around 6-7lb buck coho on my ultra light GL2 loomis rod, what a fight it was, about 24 minutes till I got it to shore.) (see pic.) so Decided to leave around 5:40pm on my way home stopped by another lake to do a little fly fishing, before calling it a day, caught about 6 decent rainbows within 10 mimutes,size ranges from 12-14"on a black leech pattern fly, Both my wife and my brother caught a few rainbows on lures and spinners with my wife being the winner on the lake catching 14", the biggest one. So overall it was a good day.

enforcer

10/17/2014 9:23:00 AM

Sounds like a good day of catching.

About the cutts in that lake...most creeks in and around that lake, as well as all over Snoho county,are native homes to cutts. So to me it's not that surprising that you'd catch one in lakes connected to those creeks.Before people started carelessly building bad culverts, they were even more widespread and if they had access to the salt...well, you know. Good job.

leo

10/17/2014 2:06:00 PM

I wanted to post a slow motion video of the release of that cutt from roseinger, but I could only post 2 pics, so I went with the dog and coho. It was a good day of fishing , I have caught many cutts in lakes all over Snohomish county for many years, and this was the first one I saw that looked, 90% similar in colors etc to a searun, I'm still looking to catch (C&R) a 3-4# searun cutt out of the rivers, (stilly or sky or sultan) I heared and talked to fisherman that say they have caught them that big, but the biggest one I caught was 14"-14.5". Same as in the sound and sloughes systems haven't see any bigger, I never tried any creeks, maybe that would be the ticket

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