Northwest Fishing Reports

Anyone ever do any good on chinook from below the prison to the confluence? I only float it in the fall for coho. With no chinook fishing in the snohomish and the steelhead just blasting through on the higher water it seems like a long float with a lot of casting practice after you dump into the snoho. But there are some nice holes like hansen and nordstrom.

I dont usually fish down that far but they have to pass through that area at some point.Let us know.Is the water deeper down there? Id like to plunk it.

They love to hang out in that section from the bridge in monroe to the mouth in lower flows. I have banked it by hiking up from 522 and down from Tualco or the Reformatory, when fishing slows down up higher.

racfish wrote:I dont usually fish down that far but they have to pass through that area at some point.Let us know.Is the water deeper down there? Id like to plunk it.

Yeah theirs some nice deep holes. But be careful on the prison side that is a federally regulated mine site and the owner doesn't like people down there. While true that no one owns the river, he owns the land you cross to get there. And he don't want the feds all up in his business if something were to happen. But from tualco you can fish the first hole down I think its called the Indian hole and I clean up on chums there, when the state let's us.

I wish i knew the lower bank spots better, thats were i would be saturday.

You can pm me and maybe we can hook up sometime. Always looking for good fisherman to float with too.

No Chinook fishing in the Sno, I always wondered why. I would like to use my Seahawk in the tidewater Sno for Nooks but no dice.

spoonman wrote:Anyone ever do any good on chinook from below the prison to the confluence? I only float it in the fall for coho. With no chinook fishing in the snohomish and the steelhead just blasting through on the higher water it seems like a long float with a lot of casting practice after you dump into the snoho. But there are some nice holes like hansen and nordstrom.

Yeah I bet someone could slay at upper and lower rock

spoonman wrote:You can pm me and maybe we can hook up sometime. Always looking for good fisherman to float with too.

What do you float with?
I have yet to get my pontoon on a river so im really looking forward to some nice summer floats

16 foot wooldridge.

Little bigger then a toon haha
I would take it you got a pump on the back of that?

Nah its a drift boat, just good ol man power......and sometimes an 8 horse evinrude.

BARCHASER wrote:No Chinook fishing in the Sno, I always wondered why. I would like to use my Seahawk in the tidewater Sno for Nooks but no dice.

spoonman wrote:Anyone ever do any good on chinook from below the prison to the confluence? I only float it in the fall for coho. With no chinook fishing in the snohomish and the steelhead just blasting through on the higher water it seems like a long float with a lot of casting practice after you dump into the snoho. But there are some nice holes like hansen and nordstrom.

It's to protect the chinook headed up to the Snoqualmie. That run has some problems and in the Snohomish they're all mixed in. I've caught lots of big Chinook fishing for pinks in the Snohomish, it would be really great to be able to fish that section for them. By the time the pinks are here, they turn a little brown.

Do you pull plugs for metal heads? Thats all my dad ever did with his when he had it.

fear_no_fish wrote:Do you pull plugs for metal heads? Thats all my dad ever did with his when he had it.

That's one tactic. It depends on what they want really. And who I'm fishing with. Plugs are a put 'em out and wait type of fishing, which is fine, but some times my hands get fidgety. Sometimes I just want to not row so hard

natetreat wrote:

fear_no_fish wrote:Do you pull plugs for metal heads? Thats all my dad ever did with his when he had it.

That's one tactic. It depends on what they want really. And who I'm fishing with. Plugs are a put 'em out and wait type of fishing, which is fine, but some times my hands get fidgety. Sometimes I just want to not row so hard

Amen on the rowing hard, I plug quite a bit, but when you don't have anybody else that can row, the rower does all the work and the passengers get the fish, that's great if you're a guide, but i wants me some fish too !

I like plunking on the gravel bar right below the conflunce. Its one of my favorite spots for winter steelhead. We have spent some time fishing the lower sky but it was mostly plugging threw the holes .

Steelheadin360 wrote:I like plunking on the gravel bar right below the conflunce. Its one of my favorite spots for winter steelhead. We have spent some time fishing the lower sky but it was mostly plugging threw the holes .

There's a book by bob Hierman called Snohomish My beloved County. He talks about that bar a lot as well as Thomas's eddy, really cool book, but kinda depressing when you hear and see how good it used to be.

I have read that book. I can remember being younger and going fishing with dad, having four fish and being home before everyone else was outta bed. def not like it was 10 years ago

Back in the 80s when i was a wee lad it was always the pilchuck and the sky never hving to go higher than cracker bar to slam on steel. Ihavent even fished the chuck in years