Northwest Fishing Reports

I have found that if you can find unpressured fish and dont wade out on them, but rather be quite stealthy, there is success to be had. Subtle presentation is important. Black egg sucking leaches are nice for this... longer lighter leader, small lead, swivels too. Leave your braid at home. Dont cast...

This is really a big subject... There are so many variables involved in lure choice for the water, time of year and conditions. My opinion regarding salmon spoon fishing is as follows - If you are fishing tide water areas of the river for coho and pinks, well even chums for that matter, a #1 dick ni...

My grandfather will be 100 next month - his favorite thing to say is, "You know, most people my age are dead."

There are fish already up in Canyon Creek in the deep low holes, though not that many in the system yet... There is usually a small early group of fish that shoot through the sytem... smallish fish typically - 4-8 pounds or so. The fish will trickle in for the next couple of weeks and stack up in th...

As a follow-up to this thread, 1 pink was counted so far this year at sunset falls on August 13th.

The diking of our rivers was a really bad thing for fish. Much of the Snohomish river from Everett to nearly snohomish was all tidal estuary at one time, flooding over on high tids similar to Samish bay. This is a bit off the forum topic, but I find it amusing when peope build their houses in the cu...

Bodo, I bet there are people pushing even as we speak to catch more pinks in an effort to bolster other runs... kill more fish to get more fish...???? Best way to get more chums in the river seems obvious - stop killing 60% of the run and let them spawn.

So I know I am going to get tarred and feathered for putting a link to WFC's site on here, but this article is really interesting regarding the plight of our local chinook. This article makes the case that the bigger chinook are disappearing... which are the most successful spawners... because of th...

So guys who have responded... look at the link that I posted on the top post... I am well aware of what the even year fish are... I have seen them, caught them, seen them dead, etc... My question is this - the state counts and trys to come up with an escapement for every year. Pink salmon all run on...

I don't think there was ever a "run" so to speak. If 16 years of buying fish on PS cemented one thing, it's the socks and pinks mirrored each other. There's always that odd few that come through on off years but the number are very small. Just to get it out, Baker Lake doesn't count. I'm not really...

I second the salt striker... they go on sale all the time. I have 3 of them... good feel, a decent drag and smooth bearings for about $50 on sale.

I hope somebody can tell me I am wrong here, but are Snohomish even year pinks no more? I haven't heard anything about them really since they opened them up for a season 10 years ago... I found a site on WDFW that seems to suggest they are extinct: https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/score/score/species/pop...

I don't think anybody was arguing that different runs of fish are different species... just that they are unique. Here is some sub-species commentary that is interesting and may sway your opinion, Bodo. http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/Species/1246/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...

Fun to argue, however if you look at the research done on different stocks of local fish there is plenty of evidence showing that steelhead from different systems are distinguished from one another by their DNA. The same is true of different salmon stocks as well. For example, the NF Stilly summer c...

Bodo, genes are made up of DNA...

The "wild" fish on almost every river around have been breeding with hatchery plants for past 60 years plus. Especially on rivers that get plants without hatcheries to collect them. For example, the Sultan, Pilchuck, Pilchuck Creek, Canyon Creek, SF Stilly, etc... Wild fish are all mongrel fish in t...

The most frustrating issue in my mind in all of this is the insistance by the tribes and WDFW that habitat is the underlying cause salmonoid runs collapsing. As long as fish have been exploited commercially, they have come back in fewer and fewer numbers. I don't care what the habitat looks like, yo...

Salmon and Steelhead are amazing and resilliant animals. They have adapted to have a certain percentage of any group stray into other rivers as a survival mechanism. Consider how many times all of our local rivers in the past centuries have been devestated by volcanic eruptions and the mudflows that...

Hatchery fish are admitedly a short term solution to a long term problem, skagit 510. They shouldn't be neccessary if fisheries were managed well. Obviously this has not happened and I agree, WDFW should not manage a fish tank. They claim they use the best science available, but the evidence speaks ...

I don't think people are truly aware of the history and true nature of the problems our fisheries face. Try to find an old growth tree in the western washington lowlands... by about 80 years ago literally EVERY tree was cut down that was of value... the same has on a large scale been done to our ste...