Pacific Northwest Fishing Reports

The Skykomish River willl open for the retention of haatchery Chinook on May 25th this year. This was done to simplify the regulations to coincide with the gamefish season...

With February the fishing regulations have changed on the Skykomish & Wallace Rivers. Take a moment and read over the clarification...

WDFW has collected enough hatchery steelhead broodstock to once again reopen the Skykomish and Wallace Rivers to fishing. Though steelheading has not been anything to write home about this season at least we have a little opprotunity...

Due to poor returns of hatchery steelhead to the Skykomish and Wallace Rivers WDFW is closing portions of both streams. With as poor as fishing has been this season it's something that should have been done sooner...

June 1st marks the opening of Summer Steelhead on the Snohomish River system. The most popular area will of course be the Reiter Pond section of the Skykomish River...

Overall, fishing has been fairly slow. Hopefully we'll get enough water to bring in a few fresh fish.

Due to lower than expected returns on Coho salmon, WDFW has closed the Snohomish system to retention of wild Coho. You will still be able to retain hatchery fish...

With the recent rains and increased water flows in the Skykomish & Wallace Rivers we have seen good numbers of Coho that are willing to bite. The past few days have seen some fairly good fishing in both streams...

The hatchery sections of the Skykomish and Wallace Rivers reopen for fishing...