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Sockeye on the Skok

Post by FishBaitThe2nd » Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:28 pm

I heard from a buddy the other day, that soon there going to be trying to get a sockeye run on the Skokomish river, and will be transporting fish to Lake Cushman and have a similar situation like they do with Baker Lake. Anybody heard anything, or are people just BS'n ?
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Re: Sockeye on the Skok

Post by Chucksrage » Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:38 pm

FishBait,

Tacoma power is doing this and more. Here is the Link.

http://www.mytpu.org/tacomapower/fish-w ... o-project/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Sockeye on the Skok

Post by obryan214 » Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:42 pm

there is a small run of riverine sockeye spawning somewhere in the river already. i've seen them with my own half blind eyes. one of the few rivers in the world they do that.

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Post by FishBaitThe2nd » Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:23 am

Oh sweet! Thanks for the info. I heard a rumor that there were already sockeye in there too. Ive seen one steelhead caught out of there, good to see there trying to get the steel back in the river.
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Re: Sockeye on the Skok

Post by obryan214 » Sun Jul 28, 2013 2:13 pm

I've been told steelhead fishing can be pretty good there by several people at brown creek I think it was.

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Re: Sockeye on the Skok

Post by RiverChromeGS » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:41 pm

obryan214 wrote:there is a small run of riverine sockeye spawning somewhere in the river already. i've seen them with my own half blind eyes. one of the few rivers in the world they do that.
Actually theres a lot of rivers that have small runs of river-spawning sockeye, the runs arent big but most rivers have some. For example, northfork nooksack, northfork stillaguamish and pilchuck creek to name a few all have decent sized sockeye runs with no lake to spawn in, i caught at least 10 sockeye fly fishing for steelhead on the stilly last week.
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Re: Sockeye on the Skok

Post by natetreat » Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:12 pm

Baby sockeye runs aren't the same as Lake Washington or Columbia sized runs. That's what we want on the Skok!

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Post by RiverChromeGS » Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:22 pm

natetreat wrote:Baby sockeye runs aren't the same as Lake Washington or Columbia sized runs. That's what we want on the Skok!
bring out the fly rod floss gear, alaska style.... [scared]
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Re: Sockeye on the Skok

Post by primetime » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:12 pm

fishenfreak wrote:
obryan214 wrote:there is a small run of riverine sockeye spawning somewhere in the river already. i've seen them with my own half blind eyes. one of the few rivers in the world they do that.
Actually theres a lot of rivers that have small runs of river-spawning sockeye, the runs arent big but most rivers have some. For example, northfork nooksack, northfork stillaguamish and pilchuck creek to name a few all have decent sized sockeye runs with no lake to spawn in, i caught at least 10 sockeye fly fishing for steelhead on the stilly last week.
I caught a sockeye on pilchuck creek last year. I was confused what it was at first.

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