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Skagit River Fishing Reports

Posted: 8/28/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
this reports for the 24th-26th. camped 3 nights on the skagit above mt vernon. saw tons and tons of fish caught. our group ended up 22-36 including one silver on sunday. lotta boats plunking sandshrim...
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By: Jimbo
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Zipped up the North fork about Noon, many boat's in the fork area. Found our spot open on the North and dropped the claw. Set up the wife's rod with a Green Willy, next mine in pink. Sat down her rod ...
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By: shambaj
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Great day for plunking on the Skagit River. My wife and I caught 4, lost 7 using sand shrimp with 5 weight. 3 ' leader. Nice size. people on either side of us made their limit. Deeper water pays off...
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By: mud shark
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
so we hit up the skagit today as we knew the snohomish would be wayyy crowded with the derby going on ther skagit today was lights out fishing we got 3 limits in 2 hours and lost too many fish to ...
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Posted: 8/23/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Great morning on the Skagit. Fished off my island just down river from Rasar State Park. Kept three nice bucks, the biggest being around 6 1/2 pounds, about 24 inches. All the fish put up pretty go...
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By: EFHutton
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with friends for some heavy pink fishing. By the time I got there, they had already landed 15 fish. Seemed like a sure bet for me so I jumped right in. Took a while to get one on, but within an...
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By: Norm
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Today I decided to launch from Gardner and see how fishing has been up there. Im starting to get tired of catching pinks so I anchored up and plunked my coho spinners. I was looking forward to getting...
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By: EFHutton
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing the Skagit with friends. Never caught a Humpy on the Skagit in all the years I've tried. Finally I got one and what a thrill it was! Seemed like the fish were coming through in a school at the...
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By: burlee
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A good morning to be on the Skagit, I'm not sure where everyone else was, because I didn't see but one other person, and they were 1/4 mile away. Fishing from the bank in Mt. Vernon, my 2nd cast with ...
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Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the Skagit from 6:30 A.M.-10A.M.--Located just below the Gardener Launch. Friend, Jack and I caught 4 pinks and one nice silver using either FST (copper with red head) or Needlefish( gold with...
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Posted: 8/20/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the North fork, Hit 12 landed half, caught 3 on pink flies and the rest on Dick nite spoons......Man they take flies hard.....They are netting the river now.......No pics but you know what pin...
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By: Chromer
Posted: 8/19/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the skagit this evening, my usual spot. Went 7 for 7 on Pinks, using a Pink Hootchie; 1/4 oz. Kept 4, biggest buck being 26", hen 23". All fought hard, big buck took a little while to land, usi...
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By: Norm
Posted: 8/16/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A couple days not fishing really gets to a man. Decided to head out for a couple hours this morning to see what was going on. Went down to the North Fork and started casting some jigs. Ended up going ...
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Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
just like the other reports, still no fish. I fished at railroad bridge by soccer fields. water color is in good shape.
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By: lahar dar
Posted: 8/14/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
No luck yet again. Visibility is still poor, but better than Monday. Tried buzz bombs, spin-n-glo's and even big baitfish flies. Not one bite. Saw a plunker land one around spud shed. If anyone has a ...
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By: Big J
Posted: 8/14/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at Gardener road ramp on Tuesday 8/13. I was unaware of the Highway 20 mudslides. Very muddy water with about 1 foot visibility. Did not fish. Took a boat ride. Some people were bank fishing ...
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By: Norm
Posted: 8/13/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is a few days worth of reports. After fridays fun hooking a bunch I had high hopes for saterday. But storms rolled in and it wasnt very good fishing. Saterday we went down to the north fork where...
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By: lahar dar
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Skunked for 2nd time in 2 tries. Fished Conway to Mt Vernon last Wed. and Mt. Vernon to the salt water today. Today the river had about 8" visibility due to the thunderstorms. no bites. saw one bank p...
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By: HACKEY
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Should of slept in today..river looks like chocolate milk. less than 2 in visability.
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By: Jimbo
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a bust, put in at Conway, headed up to the forks area. Seen 2 roll in the South fork. Plunked some in the North fork and started our way up river. At the Gardner launch we stopped and worked our ...
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By: NimmunDay
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
For the fourth time I hit the Skagit this morning with my dad. Fished 5:30-12:00. My dad hooked and landed a fish at about 6:30. He again hooked, but lost a fish @ 7. I hooked and lost a fish @ 10:30i...
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By: mud shark
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
seems loke fishing has slowed down only managed one fish today but i did lose 6 of them my buddy got 1 also and he lost about 5 going to start hitting the snohomish next week
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By: rpbfishin
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the Skagit again yesterday and plunked at the spud bar. I am happy to report that I got my first 2013 pink! I was the only fisherman (that I could tell) that caught a fish while I was ther...
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By: NimmunDay
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at the Skagit River, not going to say where because its already at combat fishing levels. Anyway I'm very tired, and I don't have the brainpower to write a full report. Long story short, ...
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By: rpbfishin
Posted: 8/10/2013
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report on this site, although I have been a WALakes member for a couple of years and have been reading reports here for about a decade. Thanks for all of the great info over the years...
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