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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: strobes on August 27, 2012, 07:58:02 PM

Title: skagit 2012 season
Post by: strobes on August 27, 2012, 07:58:02 PM: was thinking of heading to the lower skagit on the weekend but was wondering if anyone had been there recently and could report on the conditions. its a long drive down their and if its not wadeable or fishable i would hate to waste all the time and money.
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: FishingFitz on August 27, 2012, 09:42:23 PM: I went just over a week ago, gyn clear and quite low. lots of fish being caught, my 2 friends caught 26 bulls and 3 bows combined in one day of fishing.

goodluck!
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: Blackgivesway2blue on August 28, 2012, 12:02:07 AM: green drakes are just starting to pop off, lots of bulls too, get out there.

Austyn
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: Dryfly22 on August 28, 2012, 12:14:50 PM: How do target bull trout there. Thanks
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: zabber on August 28, 2012, 12:23:14 PM: Streamers.
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: Dryfly22 on August 28, 2012, 12:48:41 PM: So do u just swing the streamers through the deep pools. Or do u strip them in.
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: Noahs Arc on August 28, 2012, 02:08:00 PM: Bulls can be anywhere, in the big pools strip em in. Swing in the runs and never pass up a log jam.
Cast to the logs and feed a bunch of line to get a nice drift by the whole jam or even swing in front if you can.
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: cutthroat22 on August 28, 2012, 02:11:20 PM: Any spin fishers up there?
I'd like to give it a whirl with a spin rod and some jigs/twisty tails.
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: zabber on August 28, 2012, 11:16:09 PM: The river's not fly-fish only IIRC, so spin away (though please check the regs before doing so).
Title: Re: skagit 2012 season
Post by: FishingFitz on September 05, 2012, 11:04:19 PM: Bunny leeches are the best for bulls up there ive heard, id imagine a big egg sucking leach as well. anything big like that.