We got Skagit pinks every 3rd cast or so last year (every day we fished it, and we fished it maybe 5 days) once we located pinks breaking the surface of the water every 30 seconds (or more often) over an area that's maybe 100' long. They moved each day. Besides that, the trick was to use 2" bubble-gum colored twist-tail plastic worms ("grubs") on 1/4 oz. unpainted jig heads. Then let it FREE-FALL for 2.5 seconds or so, then reel in half-a-turn or so, then repeat CONSTANTLY. A boat was a "must" for the best fishing!! Sedro Wooley area is where we fished.

Didn't fly-fish much there, but on the Harrison River I've got pinks virtually EVERY cast at times, in slower water, using a fly called a "Sockeye"....it's on kman.com, and you get what they refer to as the "red" color, even though it is actually very PINK (gotta be pink in reality, since no other color usually even comes remotely close to the same success rate.) The key is to let it FALL for about 2.5 seconds, just like the jig I mention above.

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