Northwest Fishing Reports

Has anyone heard if the cascade,cowlitz,tokul,or the skookumchuck rivers doing well?
Thanks!!!!

I hears that tokul was on fire last weekend and that the skook and cow were good too. My friend guided the cascade and said it was hit and miss but his boat did very well.

Was at Tokul this morning. The run appears to be winding down there. Lots of people, and I only saw one fish landed.

Might head down to the skookumchuck this weekend or next weekend. Has anyone heard of fish being caught?

I think it is way early for the Skook still. I haven't seen anything in the escapement reports, and am not planning to hit it until the late part of February.

Is there any coho left in the skook?

Go fish the skook man! Youll never know if there is fish until you go. Some helpful advice, there are fish in that river at the end of december. Dont wait for escapement report, Hatchery doesnt start counting until mid feb.

schu7498 wrote:Go fish the skook man! Youll never know if there is fish until you go. Some helpful advice, there are fish in that river at the end of december. Dont wait for escapement report, Hatchery doesnt start counting until mid feb.

Shhhhhhhhhhh.... lol

I will, thank you everyone.

Skookumchuck:
Knowing how the weather conditions affect that river is Key, once you dial that in it is full of willing fish from Late January all the way threw April.

Seattlè Pat wrote:I hears that tokul was on fire last weekend and that the skook and cow were good too. My friend guided the cascade and said it was hit and miss but his boat did very well.

Well since you cant take a boat on Cascade....

Cascade has been dead the past two seasons and now that they arnt taking eggs any longer that is a dead fishery as far as steelhead go. I hear of a guy picking up one every few weeks.

schu7498 wrote:Go fish the skook man! Youll never know if there is fish until you go. Some helpful advice, there are fish in that river at the end of december. Dont wait for escapement report, Hatchery doesnt start counting until mid feb.

Thanks schu! Great bit of advice. My experience on the Skook is still pretty limited. Looking forward to this year though.

DannyL wrote:

Seattlè Pat wrote:I hears that tokul was on fire last weekend and that the skook and cow were good too. My friend guided the cascade and said it was hit and miss but his boat did very well.

Well since you cant take a boat on Cascade....

Cascade has been dead the past two seasons and now that they arnt taking eggs any longer that is a dead fishery as far as steelhead go. I hear of a guy picking up one every few weeks.

Explain why you can't take a boat on the Cascade?

Well its not big enough to take a boat on for one... Ask anyone here whose fished Cascade. Its a bank river.

You could take a drift boat down. However not sure if the regs say you can or not or where you would put in. You could take a pontoon down it.

primetime wrote:You could take a drift boat down. However not sure if the regs say you can or not or where you would put in. You could take a pontoon down it.

How you doin on the sticks primetime?

Doing good. I've done from high bridge (sky) all the way down to Cady and the bogy. Having a kid soon. So I'm off for about a month. Sled going well for you?

DannyL wrote:Well its not big enough to take a boat on for one... Ask anyone here whose fished Cascade. Its a bank river.

Danny you are quite wrong, but I like that, maybe it will help keep the crowds down!

Seattlè Pat wrote:

DannyL wrote:Well its not big enough to take a boat on for one... Ask anyone here whose fished Cascade. Its a bank river.

Danny you are quite wrong, but I like that, maybe it will help keep the crowds down!

in all my years of fishing not once have I seen a boat on the cascade.