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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by noclothes1 » Fri May 22, 2009 2:27 pm

swedefish4life1 wrote:Good luck just say kwickfish wrapped:-$ , mag=wiggle wart:-$ and bait=divers:-$ and stink :-$ to the max for the hogzillas and this in truth is a boat show but with all your skunked trips whats 1 or 12 more Press on Fish on!!!:-& :cyclopsan #-o :cheers:
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by swedefish4life1 » Sat May 23, 2009 5:34 am

There is a bar #-o :-# just outside of town 3rd seat to the left with your name on it:bounce: :bom:

Sunkers, pirates, plunkers Bar:thumleft: 8-[ just a inside fastball just for
you! =d>

Fish on! lol
PS make sure you wear sunscreen :colors:

Or better let put some clothes on:colors: :-$ :chef: :cheers: and come get some
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by noclothes1 » Wed May 27, 2009 2:43 pm

swedefish4life1 wrote:Good luck just say kwickfish wrapped:-$ , mag=wiggle wart:-$ and bait=divers:-$ and stink :-$ to the max for the hogzillas and this in truth is a boat show but with all your skunked trips whats 1 or 12 more Press on Fish on!!!:-& :cyclopsan #-o :cheers:
just to prove that I actually can catch fish. :thumleft:

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LOOK AT THAT HOG!! =d&gt]Image[/url]

See, I can catch some fish, just nothing out of the rivers. This guy was 1 of 2 bass for that day (05/25/09). ](*,)
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by curado » Wed May 27, 2009 3:12 pm

nice job, now if only i could find my way into a boat an fish the wild run in the skagit.
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by swedefish4life1 » Wed May 27, 2009 5:48 pm

Fish/bait???? cut them thin and brine!!!:-$ LOL Fish on!!!:chef: :bounce:

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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by richardvw » Sun May 31, 2009 5:50 pm

would anybody mind pming some places that I could fish for the hatchery fish off of the beach up on the higher parts of the skagit or on the cascade also?
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Post by curado » Sun May 31, 2009 6:13 pm

pm sent.
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by Bscman » Sun May 31, 2009 7:29 pm

I dunno about you guys, but I'm thinking the lower skagit is going to be a ZOO for these pigs...combat fishing at it's finest...???

Boats anchoring just down-stream of other boats, lines and lines of guys on the sandbar crossing lines...

We've got some real grumps up here in Skagit Co...I'm looking forward to the run, but not too sure it's going to be "fun in the sun!"

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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by swedefish4life1 » Sun May 31, 2009 7:31 pm

:-$ :cheers: :chef:
Spot On Correct

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Post by curado » Sun May 31, 2009 7:48 pm

i think the skagit will be a zoo all king season.
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by wolverine » Sun May 31, 2009 8:05 pm

The open area on the lower river is going to be combat fishing at its finest. Grumpy old timers who remember how it fished 15+ years ago and don't have a clue newbies are going to have "issues".
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by curado » Sun May 31, 2009 8:07 pm

i hear that.
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by noclothes1 » Sun May 31, 2009 8:30 pm

curado wrote:pm sent.
Hook me up. I got one place but just in case I need a backup.
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by curado » Sun May 31, 2009 9:05 pm

pm sent noclothes1 rivers are high but give it a try. heres is fish counts by weely or when the up date it
www.wdfw.wa.gov/hat/escape/escape.htm
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by curado » Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:02 pm

no fish to the wallace hatchery yet.
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by tallman8251 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:01 pm

Was down on the skagit this afternoon looking at some places to fish for the kings, and the Indians were down there with nets strung all the way across the river... What a nice sight.

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Post by curado » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:36 pm

try the cascade in marblemount
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by noclothes1 » Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:26 am

Before trucking all the way up to the Cascade call Holiday Market in Burlington and get a report. As many know the fishing up there has been horrid. Unless it has picked up in the last week or so I'd wait until Thursday and fish the wild king opener. I have seen pics of some incidental catches of wild kings. They are in there.

I just got word that the netting activity in the lower river has really limited the number of fish seen up river (obvious). now I'm excited to fish and pi$$ed3d off at the same time.

GOOD LUCK!!
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by Matt » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:04 am

noclothes1 wrote:Before trucking all the way up to the Cascade call Holiday Market in Burlington and get a report. As many know the fishing up there has been horrid. Unless it has picked up in the last week or so I'd wait until Thursday and fish the wild king opener. I have seen pics of some incidental catches of wild kings. They are in there.

I just got word that the netting activity in the lower river has really limited the number of fish seen up river (obvious). now I'm excited to fish and pi$$ed3d off at the same time.

GOOD LUCK!!
Cascade has been pure crap, call up to the marblemout hatchery for their numbers and you might think twice about it (unless, as said, it have picked up considerably in the last week). Soon as those nets are out the lower section is gunna fill up with fish, guarantee it! Let the natives get their take, once their nets are out a while there will be plenty to go round. :cheers:
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RE:Skagit Kings

Post by rseas » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:13 am

Although we had a wonderful day on the water, the fishing on the lower Skagit for wild chinook was less than stellar. There were no fish rolling and we never saw a fish on the meter. As we were pulling out of the water at Blake’s we talked to the WSFG biologist and he said there was one fish caught in the whole system. A jack was caught up at the pipeline in SW. There was a lot of speculation that the gillnets cleaned out the lower river. I am not sure if that is the case and I think that we may be early in the run. If the fish were in the area they would have been moving into the river with the high tide and that didn’t happen.

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