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Skykomish River Fishing Reports

Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Starting Time: 5:00 AM Location: Skykomish River Method of Persuasion: Egg & Yarnies Setup: Okuma Celilo 9'6" 4-8lb Rod, Pfluger Trion 30 Reel, 15 Pound Hydrofloat. There's nothing like watchi...
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By: JuLeeKea
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
If I could give this a 0 rating, I would. After sleeping through 3 alarms, I finally wake up around 8 and head down to Mann Rd. As I'm putting on my waders, the parking lot empties with people saying ...
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Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Starting Time: 11:00 AM Location: Skykomish River Method of Persuasion: Egg & Yarnies Setup: Okuma Celilo 9'6" 4-8lb Rod, Pfluger Trion 30 Reel, 15 Pound Hydrofloat. The sun was shining, the b...
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Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Reiter highwayside around 5:30. Found a nice spot that looked good but everyone around said it was slow today. Saw a huge 15lber jump next to the huge rock, and a guy across got 2 fish in a...
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By: flyguynye
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We fished the sky Friday and Saturday all day. We did high bridge to Ben Howard Friday and highbridge to sultan twice on Saturday, lots of water covered with beautiful weather. We totaled 7 steelhead,...
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Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Today was my first time fishing the Sky. Began fishing Reiter at 7 with bobber n' jig, ended by noon drifting yarn and artificial eggs across from the Sultan boat launch. Didn't personally see a fish ...
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By: kyamukun
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got out to Sultan at 4:30 this morning. Not a lot of fishermen where I was - maybe 5-6. We were all spread out pretty well - half fly fishing half, including myself, gear. Part of the reason I decided...
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By: jojo
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Reiter Ponds for the first time and inline by 5:30am with dozens of others however it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated. The gates opened and we all drove into the public parking spots. The f...
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By: vance1013
Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with my dad today on the sky up at reiter my little brother came since it was his birthday, we saw a few taken out before getting down to the river and saw another guy catch and release 3 oth...
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Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the Sky today with fishing guide Guru Ryan Hung. 5:00am seemed early enough, but the cable hole was ridiculously crowded already! There were plenty of Steelies being caught, but we were stacked...
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By: vance1013
Posted: 6/5/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on the sky up near Reiter had a great time, it was my first time that far up the sky and caught my first steelhead, I'll be back on Friday for more.
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Posted: 6/4/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Reiter Ponds last night after work with my brother. Have to admit our expectations were high after reading the online reports from Sunday. Truth be told fishing turned out to be a little slower th...
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Posted: 6/3/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Starting Time: 5:00 AM Location: Skykomish River Method of Persuasion: Egg, Yarnies & Spoon Setup: Okuma Celilo 9'6" 4-8lb Rod, Pfluger Trion 30 Reel, 15 Pound Hydrofloat. The first day back o...
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Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Chinook Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The Chinook are in! With a mixed bag of wild (all released) and hatchery (released to the cooler) fish it was a fairly good day on the water. Sat on bait divers with a egg/sandshrimp cocktail most of ...
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By: Snoop
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Such and insane day on the Sky, and one to remember. Most guys ive ever seen from Lewis street all the way up river. Arrived at 4:30 for the 6 am dash, and it was already backed out to the road. De...
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Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got to gold bar at around 5:30 and ready to go to reiter but there was just way too many cars so i we tryed elsewhere. At around 7 the bite was good for small 15" hatchery steelhead and some bait stea...
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Posted: 2/22/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/15/2014
Hot Spots: 1
All In all it was a pretty good year. it started out for me on November 4th and was fairly good for me until about the last month and slowing considerably in the last two weeks. but finishing with the...
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Posted: 2/17/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Between family time, a bout of Bronchitis, Sportsmens Shows and rib injuries I haven't been able to wet a line yet this year. The dismal river reports have helped to lessen the cravings but not elimi...
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Posted: 2/15/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/15/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I didn't see anything else caught while I was there but the fish God smiled on me. It was the last day of the season here. I started the Morning at 6:15 with glow gear to no avail. I saw two rise i...
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By: cromedome
Posted: 2/4/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/3/2014
Hot Spots: 0
woke up bout 5 this morning with only 4 hours of sleep, but i was i determined today id hook into a steelie. got to reiter bout 730, floated some jigs then switched to a size 5 blue fox. nothing. abou...
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By: Ripple
Posted: 2/1/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/1/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the Skykomish river for my first time today. Got to Reiter about 10 am and hiked downstream throwing spoons and floating a nightmare jig w/prawn. No bites for me but a guy across from me landed ...
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By: HULI_ISDA
Posted: 1/31/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished retier pond hatchery side on Thursday,got there around 6 found out not a lot of people out fishing on a rainy day.fish from 6 till 11, using my home made jig(pink marabou with uv dubbing),pink ...
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By: Sthao92
Posted: 1/29/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Finally came around to get to this. Went fishing sunday morning and had the best day for my winter steelhead season so far. Went 2/4 on steelies and this would have been a 5 star day but one of the st...
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By: legit10
Posted: 1/28/2014
Species: Pink Salmon
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This was the first time I ever fished the skykomish river. I used a pink jig to catch one of my fish, and a silver spoon to catch the second. The other two people I was fishing with caught 5 in betwee...
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Posted: 1/27/2014
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was heading to Eastern WA for work later in the day, figured I would make a quick stop up near Reiter. Found a beautiful spot and in 5 casts hooked two Bull Trout ( or Dolly) big flat mouths on both t...
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