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snatchinglips
6/21/2014 1:16:00 PM![](http://www.northwestfishingreports.com/forum/download/file.php?avatar=20604_1401645085.jpg)
spoonman
6/22/2014 5:30:00 AM![](/Content/images/user.png)
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Website: Snake Dancer Excursions
I want to write this because I've only been in WA for 3 years and imagine there are newbies like me.
The Snohomish River is my home site. I don't have an ocean going boat. I finally caught salmon last year cause almost anyone can catch pinks. However, I caught 17 silvers too. I sure had fun. This state has amazing fishing opportunities that could be taken for granted by old timers.
Since I caught silvers I started wondering about Summer steelhead. They must go up the Snohomish, AND I don't have a jet boat so I tried around the Pilchuck area. I went out a couple of times and saw no one there. That was a bad sign. However, I've got a great fishfinder and saw a lot of fish in the deeper channels.
I tried all of the tricks I've learned by reading this site, magazines and the local fishing stores. No secret, the steelies and kings must go through the area I went to and I could see fish. However, only causght 1 native, juvenile steelhead on a brass Mepps. I also had one bump on my 3.5 cherise maglip wrapped with a little herring. I wasn't fishing for kings cause you can't by law. I also tried sand shrimp on pink and orange corkie spinners.
I've read the steelies are the fish of a thousand casts and seems appropriate from what I've read and seen myself.
My question is - are the fish so intent on moving to the Sky that they can't be caught in the Snohomish? Is that why no one is out there fishing?
thanks,