#755238 - 04/21/12 09:59 AM
Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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River Nutrients
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Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery Chinook usually get the headlines, but according to regulations released recently by the state Fish and Wildlife Department, sockeye may edge out their larger cousins as the stars of this summer's Western Washington salmon fisheries. Predictions for a strong Baker River run of the smallish but high-quality salmon have resulted in a new fishing opportunity on the lower Skagit River, June 16 to July 15, with a daily limit of three sockeye. The river will be open from the Memorial Highway (Highway 536) bridge in downtown Mount Vernon, up to Gilligan Creek, about three miles above Sedro-Woolley. State biologist Brett Barkdull in the agency's La Conner .... http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120419/SPORTS/704199956/0/sports01
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#755241 - 04/21/12 10:23 AM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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WINNER
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Whoooo Hooooo......let the flossing begin!
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#755265 - 04/21/12 12:30 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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I may drag the boat up there and sit on anchor with diver and sand shrimp or twitch jigs. It will be interesting to see how this fishery pans out. With a three fish limit I bet even the cowlitz will be a ghost town during the lower skagit sockeye opener.
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#755269 - 04/21/12 12:52 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Repeat Spawner
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Drew, I've gotten a handful of socks with tadpollieis. Just sayin
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#755272 - 04/21/12 01:07 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
[Re: RB3]
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Good looking out RB3. I'll bring some along. I don't know much about sockeye other than the fact that they're tasty. From what I've read though they feed almost exclusively on plankton, and crustations like krill in the salt which is why I feel like a plunked or divered sand shrimp could be legit. and there's nothing better than hooking fish on twitched jigs either.
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#755288 - 04/21/12 02:50 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Alright.....Bob is the pro on this........Bob! What's the best bet to catch these little pretties?????
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#755291 - 04/21/12 02:56 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Alright.....Bob is the pro on this........Bob! What's the best bet to catch these little pretties????? Oh, that's right. We're all ears Bob. Let's here it.
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#755299 - 04/21/12 03:39 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/29/03
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Loc: Olympia
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I'd imagine that small fluorescent orange/red kwik/flatfish would great as well.
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#755301 - 04/21/12 04:14 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
[Re: Steel Slayer]
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i was gonna use this if i make my way up there this year for this fishery... obviously the hook is way too big, but its all i had at the moment, so i threw it on there...its a K3 
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#755556 - 04/23/12 05:18 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Spawner
Registered: 03/25/08
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Cast away on the lower river with that floss gear. Be surprised if you catch one. Anyways, it closes for sockeye at Gilligan. It's gonna be a plunk show on the lower river nothin more nothin less.
LOL on the floss gear.
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#755583 - 04/23/12 07:41 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Returning Adult
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I can't wait to read the reports of successful sockeye flossing on the Skagit this summer. While I've head many reliable reports about that method on the Kenai and other AK rivers, those rivers have sockeye runs numbering in the hundreds of thousands or millions and have extremely strong currents any distance out from the bank. With the Baker run numbering no more than a few thousand fish on the "peak" day, and many less on the rest of the days of the season, and the Skagit's currents being decidedly different than those AK rivers, call me more than slightly doubtful that flossing will bring many sockeye to hand.
I'll trust my luck to trolling on Baker Lake with a couple thousand of my newest salmon fishing friends.
Sg why does everyone say you have to floss them??
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#755586 - 04/23/12 07:46 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Dick Nipples
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Washington sockeye bite a lot better than Alaska sockeye...and you'd have a very, very hard time flossing them in the miniscule numbers we get them 'round here, compared to the numbers cruising five feet away from you on the Kenai. I bet small HotShots on anchor in the traveling lanes could get it done down there if the water has any visibility...otherwise, see you at Baker Lake  Fish on... Todd
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#755632 - 04/23/12 11:05 PM
Re: Lower Skagit to offer a sockeye fishery
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Repeat Spawner
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I also got a few on size 3 rvrfshr spinners. For the number rolling, it was horrible that I only got two. Tailout at first light.
Edited by RB3 (04/23/12 11:05 PM)
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