Let's go Fishing

North Sound Trout Unlimited is hosting a showing of IF4 on Wednesday, November 18th at the Lincoln Theater in Mount Vernon. Fly Fishers International (FFI) is one of the sponsors for this International Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4). Contact Scott at The Confluence if you have questions.

Tickets available here: Mount Vernon, WA – International Fly Fishing Film Festival®

For those of you curious about f3t (Fly Fishing Film Tour) showing at the Lincoln Theater, that is scheduled on Sunday, February 7th at 5:00 PM. Tickets are not yet available.

Things are changing faster than I can keep up with on the Skagit River.

WDFW posted a notice this morning that salmon fishing will remain open until November 15.  So our trip is on.  This notice came earlier than expected.

Dan Farmer,  Keith Michaelis, and Mark Hiraiwa have responded at this point.  Mark has a drift boat with 2 seats available.  Others are interested but not yet confirmed.

Bill

206-954-8910

This is an update on the Skagit River trip.

 The salmon fishing season ends October 31.  For the past few years WDFW has extended the season.  When they do this, it is usually in the first few of days of November.  Scott and Branden at Confluence Fly Shop both are not optimistic about an extension happening this year due to fish counts and fishing pressure.  So we will just have to wait a few days and see what happens.

The Skagit is open for other fishing, but bull trout cannot be fished above Rockport.

If the extension does not happen, then we will cancel this trip.  Most guys don't want to stand in the rain in 35 degree weather to maybe catch a trout.  But they would do it for a coho or chum.

Well it is time to hit the Skagit.

  The target species at this time of year is primarily chum salmon.  There is also a B run of Coho salmon coming up the river.

The dates we are shooting for are Sunday Nov. 8 to Wednesday Nov. 11.  There have been a number of issues influencing the timing of the trip - Indian fishing, continuous regulatory changes, low water in the river.  Well, it finally started raining so that should help the fishing.  The regs say the river is currently open pretty much everywhere.  Tribal fishing is done.

I have contacted Glacier Peak Winery and RV Resort.  They have plenty of campsites and cabins available on these dates.  Their contact info is as follows: 

Phone:        360-708-3005

Email:          glacierpeakwineryandresort.com