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Skagit River - March 28th, 2005
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Good
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Still very low despite recent rains.
- Skagit above the Sauk has 6-8 feet of visibility right now.
- Skagit below the Sauk has 2-4 feet of visibility below the Mixer down to Jackman Creek.
Fishing Report:
Fishing has been pretty good on the Skagit over the last week for steelhead. Dollie Varden / Bull Trout fishing has dropped off significantly the last couple weeks.
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Skagit River - March 18th, 2005
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Good
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Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Low and clear.
- Skagit above the Sauk has unlimited visibility right now...gin clear!
- Skagit below the Sauk has unlimited visibility with the slightest bit of color.
Fishing Report:
Fishing has been pretty good on the Skagit for both wild steelhead and big dollie varden. Quite a few big fish to be had in the upper Skagit as well this season.
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Skagit River - March 10th, 2005
supplied by: Puget Sound Fly Company, LLC
RECORDED: 
56 °
FISHING: Good
The Skagit River is only two hours North of Puget Sound Fly Company, yet somehow it feels like it is much farther away than that. The river not only holds great numbers of Steelhead, Salmon and Char, but also the largest population of Bald Eagles in the lower 48.
FISHING: Clark and the boys hit the upper Skagit a few days ago. One word: CLEAR. Spooky big Dollies are there for the taking if you can get your fly in front of them without them seeing you or your leader (fluorocarbon anyone?) This is a great time of year to hone your swinging techniques. The river does still get a run of some bruiser steelhead, and while your putting in your time for one of those pigs, the Dollies are very fun.
TECHNIQUES: Swing, Swing, Swing. Tips, Leeches...
The Skagit’s large size also lends itself nicely to two handed rods and traditional swinging techniques. If you have a single handed rod choose water that you can effectively fish. Access is good for both boat and wading anglers.
FLOWS
We here at Puget Sound Fly Company are always happy to provide directions or further information to anyone who is interested. Please call us at (253) 839-4119 or stop by the shop.
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Skagit River - February 21st, 2005
supplied by: Dickson Flyfishing Steelhead Guides
FISHING: Fair
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Winter still has us in its grips as our winter fisheries move to our early spring steelhead fishing. The good news is that our North Sound streams all have decent numbers of wild steelhead starting to show. The bad news is that air temps have been really low making fish pretty lethargic at times. Yesterday I was fishing the Skagit and morning temperatures where hovering around the low twenties....yikes! Look for a shot of rain to bring warmer weather and fishing could get pretty hot.
Skagit has great visibility all the way below Concrete with little dam relealse right now. 6,670 cfs at Marblemount.
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Skagit River - February 16th, 2005
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Good
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Great fishable shape.
- Skagit above the Sauk has unlimited visibility right now.
- Skagit below the Sauk has 4 - 6 feet of visibility
Fishing Report:
Fishing has been drastically improving over the last week from our somewhat dismal winter return of Steelhead. Pretty much all wild fish right now with the occasional spawner brat and some nice sized dollies as well.
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Skagit River - February 10th, 2005
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Good
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Skagit River:
River Conditions:
While still running higher than normal at just under 9,000 cfs the River itself is in great fishable shape.
- Skagit above the Sauk has 6 - 8 feet of visibility right now.
- Skagit below the Sauk has 2 - 4 feet of visibility
Fishing Report:
Should be some great Steelhead fishing to be had right now, BUT, fishing has been pretty tough over the last week up here on the Skagit. Moved all this weeks trips up a week or so due to the poorer than normal fishing and will be out all this week doing some test fishing to see what shows. Stay tuned for more reports!..and yes, the Skagit is being heavily netted right now!
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Skagit River - February 4th, 2005
supplied by: Pacific Northwest Sportfishing
FISHING: Good
Overall we've had fairly decent fishing this past week. We've fished the Skykomish, Skagit, and another north sound river and have found fish in all of them. Every river in the north sound is in shape and fishing well right now, including the Stilly and Sauk Rivers. We're kind of in that between time right now with the hatchery run waning and the wild run yet to develop, but I would expect a good showing of wild fish here in the coming week or two. With the wild run on the horizon I for one will be getting quite a bit more serious about the steelheading, since the hatchery fish really don't do much for me.
If you're gearing up for wild fish a little bigger is generally better. 6" pink worms, plugs, sand shrimp, large marabou flies, jigs that are a size or two bigger than your brat jigs, etc. Wild fish are the opposite of their docile hatchery in-breed relatives. They are aggressive, territorial, and generally pissed off at the world. Put something large-and-in-charge in their wheelhouse and hang on!
Once in a while I get a chance to actually fish for myself and I have a very narrow list of people who get the invite to join me. These people are those that are content to spend time with friends, enjoy the scenery, have FUN, and if a fish comes along it's one helluva a bonus. Between rowing, which I don't mind and enjoy, and keeping things moving along I'll generally get to fish about 25% of the time if I'm lucky, usually less. If I can spend a day like that with quality people I'm happy as a pig in mud. Still a few dates available throughout the catch and release season on the Skagit system (March/April) and in February for those interested in tussling with a big, nasty steelhead.
Until next week...good fishing!
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Skagit River - February 1st, 2005
supplied by: Dickson Flyfishing Steelhead Guides
FISHING: Fair
water levels - click here
All over the board" Rivers headed out.....again, now they are back. I have seen plenty of winters that were warm and rainy. I have seen a lot that became clear and cold. Can't say that I remember a winter that was warm and dry. Weird. We certainly never seem to have the same winters twice in a row. By my feeble calculations, we are about due for a warm and rainy one. I just hope we get some snow pack with it.
The rivers are back to fishing well.
Sauk had steelhead and Dollies. Darrel & company are swimming some fish. So is John. Cool. Skagit is much the same. Stilly was quietly getting it done, and even the Sky got a squirt.
Me? I took off for a ski trip for a few days, and Mike spent most of his time poking around the local waters. Jeff's ponds is happening.
Maybe the biggest trip of the week was a Lakes day with my 82 year old friend & client, Bill. We never bothered with any of the other lakes, on this 90 acre complex. We went directly to the trophy waters.
I set him up with a Denny Rickards Sealbugger with a beadhead. These big rainbows love to cruise edges, so we tied on our 3x fluorocarbon leader and fished floating lines. Never even stepped into the lake except to net a fish. Gentlemen fishing.
I won't fill you in on all the gory details but it seemed every time I looked up, Bill was being towed around by another lovely rainbow. Right now it is mini leeches and young dragonfly nymphs. Fish ran from your eastern Washington bows to fish we measure in pounds. Only thing I felt bad about was we never got to fish some of my favorite waters on the other lakes.
River fishing:
I would look for a pulse of winter hatchery steelhead if we get this rain. The Skykomish is already low but the Skagit is still pretty high. Try the Sauk.
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Skagit River - January 28th, 2005
supplied by: Pacific Northwest Sportfishing
FISHING: Fair
No fishing for us this past week! Between flooding conditions and a trip to Ohio for a family funeral we've been mothballed. The upper Skagit was fishable yesterday with about 2 feet of visibility and today the middle river below the Baker had a little over 2 feet of visibility. Most of the color in the river is coming from the Baker and Sauk Rivers. Flows are still up a bit, but fish the soft edges and the fly water over the bars and I bet you'll find a few early wild fish hanging out. Though there could still be a few hatchery brats around, we're pretty much closing the chapter on the dismal brat return and gearing up for the big dudes. One of these years maybe WDFW will actually figure out that their Skagit steelhead hatchery program needs to be revamped.
The Skykomish and Snoqualmie Rivers are fishing well already and we heard some great reports of hatchery fish a couple days ago in the Snoqualmie. As for the Stilly, the flows are down but I would expect it to fish marginally for at least a few more days. The poor Stilly has really taken a beating the last few years.
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Skagit River - January 24th, 2005
supplied by: Dickson Flyfishing Steelhead Guides
FISHING: Poor
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From "Arctic Blasts to Monsoon Mary"
As the aftermath of recent flooding begins to subside, it is sobering to realize, our weather swings are not even a blip on the page compared to events around the world.
We only had a tiny window of fishing as rivers went from bone chilling cold to flooding over their banks. I have no idea what we are supposed to do for a snow pack this year, Weatherman says we are supposed to slide back into the dreary Pacific northwest weather patterns this week. Whatever the heck that means. Rivers should settle in. As the hatchery winter steelhead finish their venue, the large winter native steelhead are coming around the corner. I will be the first to admit - I just don't hardly get excited about winter hatchery steelhead, but I live for the kick-butt wild fish. What would fishing be, if we didn't have something to look forward to?
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