It’s almost August and the fishing is GREAT all over Washington State. The Ocean is kicking out fish … the Columbia river from the mouth all the way to Rufus Woods is giving up chromer fish … and the rivers, lakes and reservoirs are all hitting for bass, walleye, trout, steelhead and even panfish … basically it’s ON like Kong!
Since the June 1st opener of the Snohomish River System life has been good to great for the local fisherman. The Skykomish River has been showing consistent results for summer-run steelhead and king salmon. These fish come in almost everyday on the bell curves due to the snow melt and rain. This means chrome-bright, sea liced, scrappy fish that fight like crazy every day!
Since I last reported, I have been on the Cowlitz doing serious damage to the Cowlitz River steelhead population. Fishing has been GOOD to say the least. Multiple hook-ups per day, with a bunch of big fish to boot.
Washington and Oregon rivers are full of big, bright, chrome fish these days — springer salmon, late-run hatchery steelhead, and native steelhead!