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My very first steelhead from the Skykomish was taken from the Afternoon hole in 1965 (can that really be 60 years ago!). Over the decades have caught fish from most of the length of that "Hole" with the riffle at the top being the best but also caught fish in the "corner" (where that first...

Dave- I too caught a number of steelhead from that backchannel but then I have always been drawn to such areas. Curt

Woolen needs to go

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Dave- Like the larger adult steelhead, I made the female call based on the head shape and shorter jaw. I remember Pete making that comment. In the fall or in the salt folks sometimes confuse chrome bright sea-runs (usually immature and/or female sea-runs) as mini steelhead. In those cases, a...

An interesting fish! Based on just that photo and what we know about the various salmonids in the "s" rivers here is my best "guess". Not a coho; while those rivers have some very late coho (spawning can last through March) by this time of year they would be exhibiting some coloration...

I understand that hwy 530 is open to one lane of alternating travel. With the floods and low chum runs the numbers of Skagit eagles is down from what they were a couple decades ago. That said photographers I know are finding some birds. An alternative for your mother might be a day trip on...

For years I would use a simple soft hackle with greyish/brown dubbed body with a fine gold rib and partridge hackle with fairly consistent success. That said the last few years have been using a suggestive callibaetis pattern that incorporates soft hackle principles and have been pleased with...

Seeing those smaller diameter tippet materials caused a flash back to the 1960s and reminded me how far leader material has advanced! When I started fishing small dry flies (18s) in the early 1960s I used a lot of 6X tippets and even some 7X. As I recalled the 6X when new tested at 1 3/4# and...

When Pass was first rehabbed (some 75 years ago) it was cutthroat that were replanted, Shortly there after rainbows became the dominate species planted. I believe that some cutthroat were included in the planting scheme into the 1980s. The browns were first introduced in the late 1980s...

A friend has been battling with the park to some action in replacing that hay field with trees for 5 years. He reports that park would harvest the hay and sell it (best use of public land? and how was the result funds used?). Further given the poor quality of the Fadalgo Island soils the...

Fish more than in 2025 and to still be fishing at the end of 2026.

If the Seahawks make it to the Super Bowl (certainly not a given) they could potentially face the both the 49ers and the Rams.

Today's sandwich included the last "fresh" tomato of from the 2025 crop ymmm,!

After a major flood it is not uncommon for Spada reservoir to be dirty enough to affect the fishability/turbidity of the Sky below the Sultan. Expect that condition to last for weeks. Curt

In the case of the Skagit bull trout, it appears that while they spawn in the upper reaches of the basin (where winter stream temperatures are below 4 degree C (below 49 degrees F) they tend to fill the rearing habitat from those spawning areas downstream. At low abundances nearly all the...

A great discussion that underlines the need to be able to convert those all too rare salmon takes to fish to hand. My approach/system to achieving the highest conversion rates of garbs to fish to hand as possible (something north of 80%) is essentially the same in any of my fishery where I'm...

During my trips to BC in 2022 the damage from the 2021 event to the road systems was at or even above what we are seeing from this current event. Bottomline the storms have becoming more damaging with the damage occurring at the point where the AR storm hose is aimed. I did find it...

It looks to me that the increased flows are a combination of impacts from both climate change and land use (logging in the case of the NF Stillaguamish). There is some debate which of the two play the larger role. There seems to be significant variation between basins the impacts. In the...

To Matt's point - An example of how parameters such as (100-year-flood) has changed we need look no further than the North Fork Stillaguamish. There are USGS flow records going back nearly 100 years (started in 1929). According to FEMA flood frequencies for the NF were - 10-year 28,100 cfs...