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By: Ian Horning
Posted: 1/7/2017
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to the frozen north today to try and scare up some chrome.
Fishing with Pnemonia? A guy can only be kept indoors for so long.
It is cold and there's a foot of snow up there, the creeks are ...
By: Lobsterbait83
Posted: 12/22/2016
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to the lower skagit river. Chasing steel but ended up having a wonderful day with dollys.
Went to the basics except for the set up a 5-6 fly rod with a ultralight spinning reel 6 pound mono. P...
By: Ladyclipper
Posted: 11/19/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on the river. 101/2 and 14 #. Brass spoon and Blue Fox spinner.
By: Hdawg314
Posted: 11/5/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing today at the concrete launch from a sled. It was raining hard, the river was way up and not many fish in the river had to work hard. Heard from some friends that they got three below the...
By: Nuke_27
Posted: 10/4/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished upriver of the Conway boat launch. Tried vibrax with silver blade and orange body - nothing. A pink jig managed to illicit a bite from an aggressive trout. My son was using a pink / blue plu...
By: fisherman92
Posted: 10/2/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well me and a friend fished up in marblemount for coho Saturday from about 630am to 1030am. Tried the upper skagit and the cascade. 1 king was caught and released by us and we only saw 1 coho landed a...
By: Mrs.Kris
Posted: 10/1/2016
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/1/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Skagit today by foot for the second time today for coho. Tried everything from jigs in deep pools to plugs in shallow fast water. Finally got hit on the brads wiggler in pink and purple. Af...
By: Dave M
Posted: 7/8/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Found out why there are so few reports for the Skagit, nothing biting. Started at the Gardner boat launch, my son had one legit bite and that was it for the day. Headed back to the soccer fields which...
By: skagking26
Posted: 7/3/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well after fishing 13 of 14 days straight last year with zero success, my excitement to target the elusive sockeye on the river was lacking. So after watching the opener come and go, I decided it was ...
By: Jakefish
Posted: 7/2/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, I would not have thought it would be slower today than last week, especially after the fish counts at the baker river. One fish caught on the bar all morning between 17 rods, no others on. I ho...
By: cwbraue
Posted: 6/30/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We were visiting my parents in Skagit county, so I took a short fishing trip to the river. Since the rivers just recently reopened I thought that fishing would be good. Unfortunately the fish weren't ...
By: Jakefish
Posted: 6/27/2016
Species: Sockeye Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/25/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had been excited about this fishery for weeks, and the delay was killing me. The fish counts at Baker Lake were getting pretty decent, so I thought there would be more fish in the river. More than...
By: RiverChromeGS
Posted: 11/30/2015
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well my last coastal salmon days have come to an end. Its nice to have some time off, it was a crazy busy fall! Ive been getting out on the Skagit a little bit with some clients who just want to get o...
By: RedRum
Posted: 11/27/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the Swift Creek section of the Skagit. Fought the howling wind and listened to trees come down until the waiting time for casting in between gusts was too long for my patience! Was swinging fli...
By: montana_sam
Posted: 10/19/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I just started to dial in the Coho on the Green and now it's closed. Oh well, can't eat the seed if you want the plant to grow. I decided to drive up to the Upper Skagit. I had read a few promis...
By: mowerman
Posted: 10/17/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2015
Hot Spots: 3
UNREAL just an FYI the wdfw along with tribal authorities have closed the Skagit and the Stilly effective Monday for all salmon. The Skagit river has tons of coho in it and they say there aren't enoug...
By: mowerman
Posted: 10/15/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/14/2015
Hot Spots: 3
WOW what a great time to go fishing! There are a ton of silvers in the Skagit right now river clarity is really good and the fish are biting. I have been doing really good East of Sedro Woolley fishin...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 10/12/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/12/2015
Hot Spots: 2
We fished the upper Skagit today with River Chrome Guide Service, in Dany’s drift boat, floating from Marblemount to the takeout at Swift Creek. The recent rains had brought the river up – a lot – and...
By: rseas
Posted: 9/27/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Occupational loose ends tied up so I had a couple hours unaccounted for. I headed upriver to commune with my aquatic friends. I love this time of the year, crisp fall weather, the river is choked with...
By: tenderfoot
Posted: 9/26/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Skagit early morning, up near Lyman/Hamilton hoping for some silvers but it seems like it's still too early. Absolutely no silvers. Lots of tapped-out, tired pinks. Drove down toward and tried...
By: deer_hnter
Posted: 9/24/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Slow night on the Skagit. Got to the bar by the soccer fields around 6:00 and fished until dusk. Saw one roller the whole time; not one hit. A few other anglers on the beach were also coming up empty,...
By: spider7862
Posted: 9/14/2015
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went out early Sunday morning before the hawks game launched the boat and ran up river to our spot anchored up and dropped the gear at daylight fishing was slow to start but then got a double on get t...
By: majorhunting
Posted: 9/8/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Wow!
Limited in thirty minutes and even lost three at the boat during that time. Almost every cast was a hook up. Spent more time putting the boat in the water and boating up river than fishing. D...
By: shambaj
Posted: 9/5/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/5/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Started fishing on the Skagit River near Burlington rail Bridge and bamm, fish on. The was to be the last fish of the morning for us. Several folks next to us were catching them, but overall so day f...
By: Nate Tomyn
Posted: 9/4/2015
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Been Skunking out hard on this river, partially due to the dirty water.... Last time I fished was in the storm and I saw one fish jump for two hours, caught nothing. Has any been in the Skagit lately...