An angler holds a wild steelhead captured and launched in the Skagit River system throughout the 2025 fishing season. Picture: Marcus Reaves
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has actually revealed that the Skagit and Sauk rivers will near all fishing on Friday, April 11, due to lower-than-anticipated returns of wild steelhead. The last day open for steelhead fishing will be this Thursday, April 10.
In-season catch studies, test fishing, and other fisheries keeping an eye on by the WDFW and Skagit co-managing people has actually led fisheries supervisors to downgrade the 2025 steelhead projection to 5,151 wild steelhead. The preseason projection was 7,019 steelhead.
Provided the substantially lower approximated return and high levels of fishing activity, the fishery is closing to secure generating steelhead, reserve staying steelhead effects for spring salmon fisheries, and guarantee standards in the Skagit River Steelhead Resource Management Strategy (RMP) are satisfied.
