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By: Davidwoff1977
Posted: 11/6/2021
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/6/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went down to the Skookumchuck River it's been about 10 years been fighting depression been going through a lot finally got my life right and my mind right it's a great day on the river a lot of fire t...
By: Dirty Mike
Posted: 10/16/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit the opener to see what there is to see. Surprised there was quite a few people. Got there about 3:30 fished until 6 hooked one dark king and let it go. Didnt see one brite fish loaded w...
By: AllWaysTryin
Posted: 1/21/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
got out on a Saturday with my son and scored this beauty. Thanks to the guy who got wet with the net for me.
By: ilikefish
Posted: 10/30/2017
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished The upper river. At first light you could see the Kings charging up the shallows. I knew I was to early for the coho, but decided to give it a go. After all it is a long drive. Used a 3.0 magli...
By: mrdiecky
Posted: 3/29/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
After the success i had on Saturday i headed back out sunday with my friend when he got off work. We started out just above trolley car. We worked our way up to the hatchery and into some fish. I st...
By: mrdiecky
Posted: 3/26/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
So i went out to the skook yesterday. There was a ton of people there but nobody catching fish. As i went to cross the river i was reading the water amd i saw that a bunch of steel were holding next...
Posted: 3/23/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/23/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Saw the skookumchuck was dropping back into shape, so I headed down for the afternoon to try and find some steelhead. There are a lot of dark fish in the river ...a few bright ones too...ended up taki...
Posted: 3/15/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Contrary to popular belief, there are fish in the river...if you bought a license, you paid for the right to catch 'em ...go get 'em.
By: upperleft
Posted: 3/8/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
"The skookumchuck is as dead as my great grandma and there is absolutely not enough steelhead to go out there. Been out on the river floating beads, jigs and throwing spoons/spinners.. Havnt had any a...
By: Dirty Mike
Posted: 3/6/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got down to the river about 6:30 as i live local thought id beat the crowd boy was i wrong packed house up by dam. Started fishing below bloody run since no room above after about 2 hrs of not seeing ...
By: elliot
Posted: 2/27/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Skookumchuck river! Started a little past noon at the fields saw nothing so I moved up close to the dam around 3:30 and fished till it was dark. Only action that I had was one bobber d...
By: mrdiecky
Posted: 2/13/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to borst,and the dam. Water was dark and blown out saw a couple dark coho but no steel. It seems strange that the fish aren't there yet since it is usally hot by now. Will try again next sat
By: Dirty Mike
Posted: 2/3/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
River very low can cross almost anywhere. Only seen dark coho about 20 others fishing zero fish Need Rain.
By: ilikefish
Posted: 1/24/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Borst, Rotary and Schaefer parks on the lower skook. Water looked green brown. Height didn't look too bad, but no hits and no fish seen. Plunkers had zero luck also.
By: akfishgrl
Posted: 1/9/2016
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by the Skook to see what was happening. Not too crowded probably because it was new years. Was a nice day and fished till my eyelets froze up.
Didn't see any steelhead, but I did catch an o...
By: dawgdrvr
Posted: 12/1/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Arrived just before daybreak. The water is still like chocolate milk. I was fishing just on the dam side of the red gate. I decided plunking was about the only option . So I soaked cured prawns on a h...
By: tframe
Posted: 3/25/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the fields all day and caught one native probably around 10lbs. Fought like crazy and wrapped herself around a submerged log but was able to wade out and unwrap it. Caught her on a nightmare ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Rearranging my work schedule a bit so I could get down to the river today, I took full advantage of the rain that came through yesterday and caused the river level to spike. My hope was that with the ...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/16/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Despite the torrential rain that was in the forecast, I headed down to the Skookumchuck on Saturday to see if I could find some willing biters. I was really on the fence about going, given how low the...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/2/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Skookumchuck for the second time this season on Saturday morning, still in pursuit of my first "real" Steelhead for 2015. After becoming somewhat convinced over the past two months that m...
By: Ijordan317
Posted: 12/4/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Caught two huge hogs below the dam up river on my fly rod. Dead drifting anything that is the color of pink was the method of success for the day. You can make out all the fish in the water schooling ...
By: fishindude
Posted: 11/29/2014
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
wanted to get out and fish on my birthday and thats just what I did. Conditions were not ideal but went for it anyway. Fought the snow, and high colored up water and scratched out a birthday salmon. L...
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Not one for typing up reports but here's another one anyways.
Went out for one of our last trips out to the Chuck this season. Got to the river around 9 PM fished jigs with shrimp down stream from ...
Posted: 4/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived around 7:30 at the hole with the big rock cliff area. Nothing biting so we moved up by the hatchery. Worked our way up to the deadline with no action but tons of river otters spooking the stee...
By: AJFishdude
Posted: 3/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning fishing the Cowlitz by the Blue Creek launch, but after no luck there we packed up and moved to the Skookumchuck. Started fishing there about 11:30am up at the corner hole. The two...