Other than the cold blast of rain we just had on Easter Sunday, things are finally starting to warm up weather wise and fish wise as well!! Still slower than your average Spring Steelhead run, we’re averaging 4 - 6 hook-ups a day, but they have all been real dandy fish so far. Seems our two salt fish are running a little late this season.
Again, haven’t been taking too many pics this season… been trying to get DNA samples and scale samples and get the fish back on their way un-harmed.
Here’s a few pics for Ya from this past week:
“The Squirrel Hunter” Erika, with her first Wild Steelhead
Robbo with a “Bucket List River” Wild Steelhead
Big Tom “The Great Pumpkin” with an Easter Steelhead
Dave Maibe joined Big Tom for a day and caught his first ever Steelhead over 20 pounds!! This chrome bright Buck measured 41 inches long with a 21.6 inch girth. Congrats again Dave!!
Another pic of Dave’s big Steelhead showing just how girthy this big boy really was!
Isn’t March supposed to go out like a lion and April in like a lamb?… Well the lion is still here!! Lots of rain and wind here the past few days and I’m still waiting for the “Global Warming”!!
Yeah, I know… It’s about time I got the blog and reports page all updated. Like I said earlier in the year I was taking the Winter off and relaxing a bit in our newly finished log home and laying low for awhile… Seems like the Steelhead were thinking the same thing most of this Winter. Was a pretty tough Hatchery Steelhead season over-all and a tough start to our Wild Steelhead Run here as well and from what I’m hearing it was pretty much State wide.
Been a real low water year and our Wild Steelhead have been slow to move up the Skagit system and I’m happy to report with all the very recent rain, a rise in water levels along with numbers of fish… they’re coming! Been doing some fishing for the WDFW, Seattle City Light and The Skagit Cooperative with their Biologists and Rob Endsley, placing radio transmitters in fish, and taking DNA and Scale samples from Wild Steelhead lately in much of the system… Again, if you’re out there fishing and happen to see Rob or I out fishing while you have a fish on, wave on us over and let us get some samples of your fish if you wouldn’t mind.
Thanks to all that have joined us fishing over the past few weeks, I’ve had a great time as always and look forward to seeing you all again real soon! Still have a few April openings left for anyone thats interested!! Didn’t take near as many pics this past month as I would have liked too and I apologize to those whose pics didn’t come out. (Wasn’t the best weather for taking pics in and it seems my camera lens musta’ been fogged up on many of them… if you fished with us and any of your pics turned out feel free to e-mail them to us)
Here’s a little March fish porn for Ya:
I’ll do my very best to update regular here the rest of April for evreyone… especially those e-mailing or calling me for updates and fish porn. Book one of the remaing April dates and Lets Go Fishing!!