Last year was decent for summer fish, if you fished either the mouth of the wallace, or at Reiter. The fish head straight to the hatcheries, so if you fish anywhere else, your pretty much fishing empty water.
It will be the same thing this year, except for we have NO water, it's going to be low and clear all year long. There is no snow pack. That may hold them up in the lower river longer, but it'll mean 8 lbs fluoro carbon all round.
Get to Reiter first thing in the morning and claim your rock. Then you'll catch something. The steelhead fishery on the SKykomish is pretty weak. There are not a lot of fish, and there are a ton of anglers fishing for them. My advice if you want to get a decent fishery is get yourself a fly rod and fish the NF of the Stilly, because the fly fishing only keeps the prerssure to a minimum. TIT still gets crappy returns, just like every stream in puget sound, but less pressure means better chances.
If you want to catch steelhead, play elsewhere. I'm being honest here, once you fish an actual steelhead run, you're going to know what I mean. Any of the columbia tribs, the coast, the Chehalis tribs, anything that doesn't go into the sound. You have to be really really tuned into it to be able to catch fish reliably on the Skykomish. Which means gas, and time, and more gas, and time. You have to work ten times harder to get fish, because there are so few of them.
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