Steelhead
Washington Fishing
Dec 30, 2022 04:21:24 #
Brandt
Loc: Packwood,Wa
How is the Winter Steelhead fishing in the Cowlits River, Wash. State doing this year?
Dec 30, 2022 04:38:58 #
Dec 30, 2022 13:31:20 #
Dec 31, 2022 18:47:26 #
Brandt wrote:
How is the Winter Steelhead fishing in the Cowlits River, Wash. State doing this year?
Awful hard to fish steelies when the rivers look like chocolate milk,though I have no clue what the Cowlitz looks like now,I'm just hoping the Skykomish doesn't look too bad as I'm taking a rookie up to Reiter Sunday morning for his first attempt at some chrome
Jan 1, 2023 15:18:28 #
Brandt wrote:
How is the Winter Steelhead fishing in the Cowlits River, Wash. State doing this year?
You live in a Prime area!
Jan 1, 2023 19:32:16 #
SALMON ADDICT wrote:
Awful hard to fish steelies when the rivers look like chocolate milk,though I have no clue what the Cowlitz looks like now,I'm just hoping the Skykomish doesn't look too bad as I'm taking a rookie up to Reiter Sunday morning for his first attempt at some chrome
Was pleasently suprised with clear water conditions at Reiter hatchery this morning, water levels were definitely up above normal but very fishable,we fished about four hours but no hook ups,Oh well we're planning on hitting it again Monday morning since its forcast to be even better than today turned out to be.
Jan 2, 2023 21:05:09 #
SALMON ADDICT wrote:
Was pleasently suprised with clear water conditions at Reiter hatchery this morning, water levels were definitely up above normal but very fishable,we fished about four hours but no hook ups,Oh well we're planning on hitting it again Monday morning since its forcast to be even better than today turned out to be.
What were you using?
Jan 3, 2023 09:35:16 #
Kerry Hansen wrote:
What were you using?
Slip float with a red areojig,put in another three hrs monday morning under extremely high winds,also no hook ups but heard that two were caught just downriver from the outlet stream.We're gonna see how weather is for next weekend.
Jan 3, 2023 14:52:51 #
SALMON ADDICT wrote:
Slip float with a red areojig,put in another three hrs monday morning under extremely high winds,also no hook ups but heard that two were caught just downriver from the outlet stream.We're gonna see how weather is for next weekend.
I am basically a Corkie fisherman.
Jan 3, 2023 20:45:18 #
Kerry Hansen wrote:
I am basically a Corkie fisherman.
That part of the Skykomish is all rocks and even using bobber and jig I still get snagged up at times,I'd hate to have to re-tie trying to drift off the bottom
Jan 6, 2023 17:21:46 #
SALMON ADDICT wrote:
That part of the Skykomish is all rocks and even using bobber and jig I still get snagged up at times,I'd hate to have to re-tie trying to drift off the bottom
I think Cowlitz is similar, but use light wt so that it taps bottom occasionally to let me know it is down there, but reduces hang ups.
Jan 6, 2023 19:35:45 #
chubbytiger
Loc: WA
SALMON ADDICT wrote:
Awful hard to fish steelies when the rivers look like chocolate milk,though I have no clue what the Cowlitz looks like now,I'm just hoping the Skykomish doesn't look too bad as I'm taking a rookie up to Reiter Sunday morning for his first attempt at some chrome
Anything happening on the Sky for Steelhead this week. One guy got a chrome one ten days ago.
Jan 6, 2023 20:15:30 #
chubbytiger wrote:
Anything happening on the Sky for Steelhead this week. One guy got a chrome one ten days ago.
Alot of people fishing,not seeing or hearing of many catching though,only saw four new years weekend,emergency job over ruled attempting to fish this weekend.
Jan 6, 2023 20:22:26 #
chubbytiger
Loc: WA
I’ll be visiting Skykomish next week. Hopefully fish will be moving. Catch a slab brother.🐟
Jan 9, 2023 14:06:12 #
Jim Bradbury
Loc: Buckley Washington
I was on the Cowlitz Saturday the 7th of January. I launched at Rainier, crossed the Columbia and fished the lower mile or so of the Cowlitz. River was high and dirty. Only Steelhead that I/we saw caught was caught by a Bald Eagle. I was marking a few fish on the fish finder for what it is worth. We could not get them to bite anything. I will fish there again in a few weeks. I will let you know if we do any good.
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