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By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 3/1/2020
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With stabilizing weather patterns, Olympic National Park catch and release steelhead fishing has continued to improve over the last week or so. We are getting most of our bites on plastic worms and 1/...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 1/26/2020
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/23/2020
Hot Spots: 0
After I had to reschedule some trips up here in Washington due to weather last week I decided to make my way down to the Clackamas River in Oregon to fish with friends for a couple days. I quickly dis...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 11/10/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Coastal November salmon fishing continues to impress, with some really solid late coho being encountered by our groups! These fish have almost exclusively been responding to non-bait offerings such as...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 10/20/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Coho fishing on central Washington coast rivers (Queets,Humptulips,Clearwater) has been picking up for us lately, with some very new fish being caught. We’ve mainly been twitching 1/2 ounce marabou ji...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 9/23/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the upper Skagit river last week targeting the early run coho with moderate success, as there still is a massive pink salmon presence up there making it challenging to get your gear past the...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 9/5/2019
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2019
Hot Spots: 0
The lower Cowlitz river, below the Toutle river, is currently fishing well for fall chinook salmon and summer steelhead, although chinook retention is, at the time of this report, not allowed. The maj...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 7/22/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Cowlitz River summer steelhead fishing has been steadily improving over the past week or so, disproving any previous theories about it going to be an average to less than average run size by yours tru...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 7/8/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We have been fishing the Cowlitz River targeting summer steelhead the first week of July and experiencing some moderate success. We have been mainly covering the area between the town of Toledo all th...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 4/19/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Our group had the opportunity to fish the mighty Skagit river and a certain very distinct tributary of it for a few days earlier this week before the big spring rains came and knocked it out shape. Th...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 4/3/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We had a chance to fish a couple rivers on the Olympic Peninsula over the last weekend of March with some decent success both days. We pretty much tried every technique imaginable from swinging flies ...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 3/11/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/10/2019
Hot Spots: 0
One of my close and longer tenured fishing buddies and I fished an Olympic Peninsula river on Sunday, March 10th. The weather was clear to start the morning but very cold (24 degrees) as we slipped th...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 2/21/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I had a chance to fish the Cowlitz river for late winter hatchery steelhead for the first time this season on Monday February 18th with two other anglers. When I got up to leave the house that morning...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 2/9/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/4/2019
Hot Spots: 0
We had been spending some time before the winter storms this week fishing the upper Skykomish river between Gold Bar and Sultan without much luck as it seems the native run of winter steelhead has not...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 2/1/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Native steelhead are beginning to show a stronger presence in the Wynoochee river as of late, that being my own experience and the same of other anglers I have chatted with; it seems to be about a 50/...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 1/22/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/20/2019
Hot Spots: 0
On Sunday, January 20th a group of three anglers and I fished the Wynoochee river between the 7400 road bridge and the White bridge launch area. The weather was mostly overcast with a few random raind...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 1/18/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Andrew and I had a pretty decent day on the Wynoochee river in Grays Harbor County on 01/16/19. We floated from the new 7400 road launch area all the way down to White Bridge, the water was ...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 1/13/2019
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/12/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Hatchery and wild steelhead are beginning to show themselves in fishable numbers in the North Fork Lewis river in southwest Washington along with some very nice quality resident cutthroat trout. We fi...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 12/19/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the Green river solo and on foot for about half of the day Sunday the 16th, mainly swinging steelhead-type flies and beads through a series of runs in Flaming Geyser state park. Fishing was a...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 12/9/2018
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 12/7/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Myself and two other anglers fished an Olympic Peninsula river targeting hatchery steelhead for two days late last week. The fishing, I would say, was slow at best. We had about seven bites over two ...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 11/20/2018
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/18/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had the chance to fish a couple rivers on the Olympic Peninsula and the Grays Harbor area over two days (11/18-11/19). The fishing I would say was average to a little on the slow side partly because...
By: Blackstarfishing
Posted: 11/10/2018
Species: Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Our group of 3 anglers fished the Humptulips river on Thursday, November 8th. Water level was approximately 1670cfs with 2' of visibility and foggy weather conditions at the beginning of the day. Back...