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Skagit River - December 8th, 2004
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Fair
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Skagit above the Sauk has 6 - 8 feet of visibility right now
Skagit below the Sauk has 4 - 6 feet of visibility right now
Skagit below Concrete has 3 - 5 feet of visibility right now
Fishing Report:
Winter-run Steelhead are just starting to show in fishable numbers now. Still quite a few Chum and Silver salmon around as well as a ton of Dollie Varden.
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Skagit River - November 29th, 2004
supplied by: Puget Sound Fly Company, LLC
RECORDED: 
42 °
FISHING: Great
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: The Skagit is in full swing right now: Chum fill the river right now, with new fish arriving still, as older fish continue to spawn, lay eggs and die. Dollies, feed on both the eggs and the carcasses of spawned out Chum. Fish the river from Marblemount all the way down to concrete for Dollies and Chum.
Remember, there is no magic color of egg for the Skagit or any other river. A variety of factors contribute to an egg’s effectiveness:
River color: The clarity of the river can have a direct impact on how well certain colors can be seen by the fish. During periods of low visibility, consider using an egg that has a more intense color, such as hot pink, fuchsia, cerise, bright orange or even chartreuse. Alternately, when the river is extremely clear, eggs that are a more realistic color are often better received.
Available light/time of day: This is similar to river color but needs mentioning as well. Similarly, when light gets lower switching to more visible eggs (brighter) can often produce results.
Age of Eggs: As eggs age, they lose both their brilliant coloration and translucency. An egg that begins as a translucent bright orange will shortly become completely opaque white. In between, this egg will gradually become more opaque, while moving from an orange sherbet color, to an apricot then a pale peachy/pink, before becoming almost completely white.
It is important to remember to match not only the color of the eggs, but also the conditions. The only way to do this effectively is to carry a variety of colors and to experiment with them as conditions change (sometimes hourly).
If Eggs aren’t your thing, consider swinging Zonkers and Flesh Flies on sink tips. Whatever your preferred technique, please use stout tippet in order to quickly land and safely release these beautiful fish.
FLIES: Glo-Bugs, Beads, Flesh Flies
TECHNIQUES: To effectively fish egg patterns, a strike indicator nymphing set-up is the most productive. A long 6 weight is ideal for this.
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 - November 29th, 2004
supplied by: Dickson Flyfishing Steelhead Guides
FISHING: Good
water levels - click here
Football and beyond.
Rains and swollen rivers have kept us off the rivers for the past few days.
Mike is out on the Skagit as we speak. Jonathan & I will be out on Monday. This is my catch-up time, so I have been tying Skagit Skaters, watching football, and adding post Thanksgiving calories. Who would have ever thought?
Back in the late 70's, I stumbled onto and developed a saltwater Chum Salmon fishery called Hoodsport. This was back in a time, where C&R was a laughable concept. Why would you ever want to catch a fish that wasn't even good to eat? Besides, all Chums do is tear up your tackle.....Yeah Baby!
Five years ago, I started writing about wonderful flyfishing for Dolly Varden on the Skagit and Sauk rivers. Better knowns were expounding how anyone worth his wading shoes would never lower himself to actually fish for Dollies.......they are trash fish, of course, which eat salmon eggs......Experts back peddled.
For the last few days we have been enduring early winter rains, which hopefully will revert back to a stunning late fall. The weather during this time of year can change on a dime. Lovely one day, brutal conditions, the next. High waters have brought in even more Chum salmon in our Washington streams, and from freshwater to salt, anglers are out enjoying both the despicable chum and the trashy Dolly Varden. Late Silvers are showing, again. Does my heart good.
Why? Because only anglers who enjoy our fisheries are the ones who become passionate about saving and protecting our fish and their waters. It truly takes a village.
Skykomish River is falling back into shape: Anglers are out. Stilly North Fork is about to go bait, so you feather flingers might want to hit that....
Sauk is struggling, but may get to fishable if the cold weather comes.
Dollies are on the Chum redds. Our glue egg-n-shuck is real good. Careful where you wade, careful where you cast! As the Chum spawn and die, the flesh flies will start up again.
Chums are known for the color green, green is about my number four color. Combinations of blacks, (Black Bart), purple, (micro Eggsucker), pinks (Pink Stinker) are all good. Chum Sport which is green, is the freshwater counterpart, to Dickson's' Chum Candy. See, I told you I was a legend in my own mind......
Everybody knows Dollies and Chum won't take in the surface, so don't even bother.
Way too much fun.
The ghost tip makes the Yancy multi-tip and wonderful saltwater flats line. Seguar Grand max. is the best flouro. leader out there, in my estimation. Use 0x for dogs, and 3x for Dollies.
Eggsucker C.C., and Black Bart (both have egg faces) are important now, because the Dollies are keyed into eggs, and good luck trying to keep it away from the puppies!
If you wanted to know if your flyfishing reels are up to steelhead, fish now. Chums will show you what's what.
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Skagit River - November 24th, 2004
supplied by: Pacific Northwest Sportfishing
FISHING: Good
With the silver run starting to seriously wane on the Skagit system we've shifted our focus over to chums and dolly varden, which are in very good numbers throughout just about the whole river system. Mornings have been best on the upper river, as dam releases have been shutting the holding fish down lately up there when the water comes up. The good side to the flush of water every day, however, is that it seems to be moving fish in on a daily basis, including a few early winter run steelhead. We'll be targetting steelhead in earnest starting this Saturday.
I'm also hearing that winter runs are starting to show down on the Snohomish system. We've got dates available for hatchery steelhead in December and January and, as usual, the February/March/April stuff is starting to fill up. We'll be fishing the Skagit and Skykomish all winter, with a 2 week stint on the Oly Pen the first two weeks of March for wild steelhead.
Here's a bit of bad luck I ran into a few days ago. Typically I'm able to get away to the east side for a deer hunt for several days each year. With the fall salmon schedule booked nearly solid the last couple of months I opted out of the deer hunt to work the rivers. With a late hunt occuring November 18-21 I was able to slip out for one day, however, and harvest a nice deer locally. With the whole job done and the boat back on the trailer by 11:00 a.m. I was feeling pretty darned good, as my usual program is to shoot something 10 miles from nowhere and nearly kill myself packing it out. Get a call from the butcher yesterday and he says the entire deer is infested with worms...yes, WORMS! Turns out roughly one out of every 2,000 deer carry these protozoa and I'm the lucky guy who gets to harvest one. So much for back straps! I guess I'll be investing in a quarter of beef soon.
Until next week...good fishing!
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Skagit River - November 22nd, 2004
supplied by: Puget Sound Fly Company, LLC
RECORDED: 
39 °
FISHING: Great
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: Puget Sound Fly Company would like to thank all of the participants in Sunday’s outing. We had a great time. Lots of Dollies were caught and safely released (as well as a few Chum and a few thousand Whitefish).
For those of you didn’t make it: The Skagit is fishing very well now. With more Chum arriving daily, the Dollies will concentrate behind them and eagerly eat patterns that imitate Chum eggs. If Eggs aren’t your thing, consider swinging Zonkers and Flesh Flies on sink tips. Whatever your preferred technique, please use stout tippet in order to quickly land and safely release these beautiful fish.
FLIES: Glo-Bugs, Beads, Flesh Flies
TECHNIQUES: To effectively fish egg patterns, a strike indicator nymphing set-up is the most productive. A long 6 weight is ideal for this.
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 - November 20th, 2004
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Great
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Skagit above the Sauk is running at normal flows again with 6-8 feet of visiblity right now.
Skagit below the Sauk has 2-4 feet of visibility right now
Skagit below Concrete has 2-4 feet of visibility
Fishing Report:
Lots of Silvers and Chum around throughout the entire system along with Dollie Varden and a few Winter-run Steelies on the upper river.
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Skagit River - November 20th, 2004
supplied by: The Avid Angler
RECORDED:
48 °
FISHING: Good
Now that the chum are in, the dolly varden fishing is starting to pick up. The Skagit and the Sauk have both been fishing, although the Sauk is still dirty from last year's flooding.
This time of year dollies will feed on egg patterns, any fleshy type flies, large white streamers and egg-sucking leeches. I like to fish these flies on an aggressive steelhead swing (dead drift the egg patterns) with a six weight rod and a heavy sink tip of 15' or so. For me, the tailouts of all the steelhead runs seem to produce the most fish.
Look for pods of salmon and fish below them, Alaska style, and you will find dollies.
Don't worry so much about the color of the Sauk. Just make sure you are fishing big flies if the water is dirty.
See my article on this fishing by clicking HERE.
Report submitted by: Nathan Keen
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Skagit River - November 14th, 2004
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Great
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Skagit above the Sauk is running at normal flows again with 6-8 feet of visiblity right now.
Skagit below the Sauk has 2-4 feet of visibility right now
Skagit below Concrete has 2-4 feet of visibility
Fishing Report:
Lots of Silvers and Chum around throughout the entire system along with Dollie Varden and a few Winter-run Steelies on the upper river.
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Skagit River - November 8th, 2004
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Great
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Skagit above the Sauk is still running a tad high with 3-5 feet of visiblity right now.
Skagit below the Sauk is still running a tad high with 1-4 feet of visibility right now, depending on where yer at on the river
Skagit below Concrete is still running a tad high as well with 1-3 feet of visibility
Fishing Report:
Lots of Silvers and Chum around along with Dollie Varden and a few Winter-run Steelies.
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Skagit River - November 1st, 2004
supplied by: John's Guide Service
FISHING: Great
River Levels - click here
Skagit River:
River Conditions:
Skagit above the Sauk has unlimited visibility and is running at normal flows once again.
Skagit below the Sauk down to Concrete has 3-5 feet of visibility right now.
Skagit below Cocnrete depends a lot on flows being released from the Baker and visibility is variable at 3-5 feet of visibility.
Fishing Report:
Silvers along with lots of Chum are in the system!!!Dollies are also making their way back into the Skagit mainstem after spawning and are very hungry and very aggressive!! Fishing has been a bit better on the lower river over the past week and is slowly improiving up-river in the Rockport area.
Hatchery Silvers have bombed through the system and are now holding up by the Cascade as they make their way into the Cascade in spurts...but, they are very tight lipped & very colored up now.
Vibrax Spinners, Dick Nites and plugs have been the ticket the past few days.
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