Skagit River Fishing Report 2/10/08
Posted on February 11, 2008
Filed Under Skagit Steelhead Weekly River Report |
Myself holding what I think to be my personal biggest hen ever caught 38×19.25, it might not be the biggest but it’s my favorite so far.
Meanwhile it’s been a great week to be on the Skagit. Fishing remains consistent in the upper stretches. Still a few hatchery re-brights kirking around and a few natives as well. Angler pressure is still pretty low and there are plenty of first water opportunities. The lower reaches of the river have been fishable one day and too murky the next. My friend Justin called me about ten minutes before he showed up at my house and told me I was going fishing Saturday. We hit the water about 2:00 pm, and the water wasn’t ideal. Then on the last drift before dark the water seemed to look perfect. I flipped my presentation into about two feet of water on a shallow bar and nailed the fish shown above. She put up a great fight. Then while playing the fish we drifted by a fly angler. Right in front of us he hooked up on a nice fish as well. The fly angler said the fish took a blue zonker. My fish however was on the forbidden fruit of hatchery Steelhead eggs behind a Chartreuse corky. The storm yesterday blew the river out and it raised up quite a bit. If we get a dry day with some cool weather it shouldn’t take long to recede. We still have a couple open days in February, and several in April. I’m not sure what the State is worried about, there seems to be plenty of fish in the river.
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now that I’m ready to go catch fish, what is the new report, starting to JONES for a 20 pounder, I’m thinking bobber doggin would be fun I heard that was one of your new tactics!