Rivers a muck, Silvers a red, The Cascade River October 24th 2009

So after a good week of not being able to fish during my weekends off of school... I headed up Highway 20 to the Cascade River with my Dad. The river still had decent visibility with a slight tinge, but since it was a fairly rocky base it does not get silted out like the lower Skagit, and the Stilly Rivers were. We fished for several hours and we saw a few silvers swimming in front of us as red as can be... After seeing no one catch anything worth wild for several hours, we moved down stream to try another spot. To no avail, the current was so strong near the outlet... So we checked out the egg hole, and as it was suspected initially it had fishermen lined on both sides of the hole... This is a small feeder river for the Skagit and it is not very wide...

Dad on the cascade early in the morning.

Dad on the river with fog rolling over the surrounding hills.
So we left and headed down the Skagit to try a few more spots and still to no avail. We didn't catch anything more than the sight of a lot of humpy salmon carcasses, Dad caught a caught a spent humpy and we saw some nearly dead humpies barely swimming along. After talking to a few more people the Skagit was blown out from the Sauk River to it's mouth... So we called it a day and headed home. On the way home through Darrington we were treated with a great view the snow dusted peak above Darrington and the views of the mud laden Sauk and Stilly Rivers...

Just south of Marblemount the fall colors were gleaming.
Dad on the Skagit River.
The view coming in through Darrington.