Snohomish / Skykomish Opens For Pinks / Silvers August 16th

The Snohomish and Skykomish up to the Lewis Street Bridge opens for retention of Pinks and Silvers tomorrow Tuesday August 16th. The limit is 4 total salmon of which only 3 can be silvers (coho) plus one additional pink (humpy), Chinook and Chum cannot be retained. There seems to be a number of pink salmon in the system at the present time and you should have at least a resonable chance of catching some. We have been hearing of pinks moving trough the system for the past week of so. If you are boat fishing you can launch at Langus Park, Lowell, Marysville, Maple Street (Snohomish) or Everett. The Lowell and Langus ramps are the ones that are most comonly utilized and closest to the lower river fishing. Maple Street launch in Snohomish has a limited amount of parking and is not the best launch by any means. Marysville is a long run (5 miles) back to where the slough comes back into the Snohomish. Everet is good but also a longer run back up the river to where the fishing is. Make sure to observe the "Speed Zones" in the streach of river below I -5 and Langus Park. You can fish them in a variety of manners but for the most part most will be casting and twitching a variety of jigs. A 1/4 - 3/8 - 1/2 oz maribou jig head in pink, pink and white or white is a very good choice or a squid bodied jig in the same color combination. Tip the jig with a smal piece of snad shrimp or dyed coon stripe shrimp and you will improve your productivity. Some folks will be casting and jigging #2 or 2 1/2 inch hot pink Buzz Bombs or Wannabees. Make sure you rig them with a single hook. It does not have to be barbless in the Snohomish. Hot pink or pink & white spoons in 3/8 or 1/2 are also very popular. You can also fish small TBS spoons such as Dick Nites or FST spoons and cast them on a 5 foot leader with a shorter 12 - 18 inch dropper off a three way swivel. As far as colors go on the spoons give a pink, pink and white or a 50 / 50 brass/nickle combination a try. Thouth not as populr on the Snohomish a plunked Spin-N-Glo / shrimp combination is also quite productive.

We do have "Fresh" sand shrimp for the pink season.