Steelhead

[PolarBear]

Not the Nooch, Skookumchuck or the Skokomish!

[Muleyslyr]

Pretty slow on the Snohomish today. At least up river it was. Were you one of the plunkers out there today pilebuck?

[pilebuck]

Yes I was big nothing today alot of rods and no takedowns !!

[6x6in6]

Not much happening in the Sultan area on the Sky this morning.  One hookup and a net wave for a guides client was about it.

[pilebuck]

I hope it picks up soon

[TheHunt]

I had one hookup on the Wynoochee.  Water is very, very low...

My son and I hook up a few red rockets on the Skookemchuck.  No steelhead...

We did better on the Snoqualmie river...  But it is slow all over. 

Cowlitz is pretty slow but my son hooked up near the crack pipe. 

That has been it for us.

[mallard79]

There are fish in the system but you have to scale down your offerings to match the conditions. I had and hr to fish last night and picked one up sidedrifting. Went out this morning and we missed 4 and I lost one in the few hrs we were out. We have scaled our gear down to 6lb leaders and the smallest corkies in lighter colors and a tiny cluster of eggs. I am seeing people throwing monster gobs of eggs...cut those down to dime size or slightly smaller and lighten up your leaders and you will up your odds of hooking fish. 

[superdown]

I just spent three days camped at blue creek on the cowlitz and saw very few fish caught even the guides weren't doing good.

[Swannytheswan]

Can someone post a pic of how you are rigging for them. i live right next to the snoqualmie but i can't figure out how to catch em. I grew up bass fishing lakes so the rivers are totally foreign to me.

[6x6in6]

Google "winter steelhead rigs" 

[snowpack]

Can someone post a pic of how you are rigging for them. i live right next to the snoqualmie but i can't figure out how to catch em. I grew up bass fishing lakes so the rivers are totally foreign to me.

what kind of river conditions are you fishing?

[Button Nubbs]

I just spent three days camped at blue creek on the cowlitz and saw very few fish caught even the guides weren't doing good.

Some guides are flat out pounding them.

[mallard79]

http://www.steelheaduniversity.com/education_index.html

Lots of good info on that website. What you should use depends on a lot of factors. Try a youtube search for reading water to hlp figure out what kind of water you have access to. It may not even be worth fishing the spot by your house.

Good luck. 

[huntnphool]

A buddy of mine got a 40.5" fish today.

[superdown]

I just spent three days camped at blue creek on the cowlitz and saw very few fish caught even the guides weren't doing good.

Some guides are flat out pounding them.

Your right some guides are doing pretty well but not very many. most of the guides that were doing well were only getting three to maybe five fish between sunrise and 3:30pm We talked to clancy's all three days and they weren't happy. My buddy and i were joking and calling it the cowlitz 500 because it sounded like a NASCAR race