Skagit River Sockeye

[RB]

Do they follow the tide like Humpies? Also is it better above or below Mt Vernon?

[klikboom]

Do they follow the tide like Humpies? Also is it better above or below Mt Vernon?

I don't believe below mt vernon is open. Good question on the tides, though?

[huntnphool]

Some pics of the riggings would be cool if any of you could share them.

[Kola16]

I wouldn't say they are "in." 0 fish made it to the traps yesterday. Zero we may get a little rain this week so maybe that will do us something.

Nice fish though

[singleshot12]

They'll start pouring in by the last 2 days of the season .. Not sure why they opened it two weeks early this year? Oh I probably know it's so the native commercials have whole run of the river when the sockeye really do come in

Glad you and your boy got a couple nails

[BOWHUNTER45]

Yesterday I lost one and had a couple bites ...But this morning I spent 5 hours fishing and nothing .. I also had the fish checker dude show up and he said in the last week in a half they checked 7 fish ...AND SOUNDS LIKE 3-Nails has 2 of them  he also said they are concerned that they have not showed up yet ..I agree ...I usually catch a lot of sockeye by now ...many hours spent looking at the water passing by ...then 2 seals came by which usually means they are following the run ...maybe the 2 I saw ate 35,000 fish before they got here 

[3nails]

 I'll be back on the river in the morning and will post a report shortly after.

[3nails]

 Landed one sockeye this morning. Hooked and lost another. One other bite. Just enough action to hit it again tomorrow morning!

[klikboom]

Did you land it on shrimp? I saw a report on washingtonlakes said he caught one a  fly after trying everthing else. I'm trying to decide if its worth getting up a the crack of dawn tomorrow.

[3nails]

 This is the rig we've been using. Several other colors have worked also. Add live shrimp and krill oil and that's it. Dropped behind the boat with 3 ounce lead. I think most of the shore guys are chucking it out too far.

[3nails]

 Friends son with his sock.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Nice one ...you may want to call the fish Biologist and let them know you found one ...They sure in the heck are not anywhere near my fishing hole  I am done unless they decide to reopen it when the fish get here ..But there is a New problem to deal with ...They shut down all commercial shrimping So a guy wants shrimp you will need to go dig your own ...something about saving whales  I am about drained from all this BS ...I may just sell all my rods 

[kodiak 907]

That was the whole run right there.... What a joke of a fishery and the season dates are way off

Nice job by the youngsters tho

[stevemiller]

Are you allowed barbed hooks on the Skagit?

[3nails]

 Took my daughter a grand total of 15 minutes to limit out this morning.