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Thanks, Old Man,for your response. It was exactly what I was looking for.

I posted the question at work, with no access to my Delorme.

Jeez, Cup-o-noodle, why be so flippant?

Tom

 

There could be some Coho upriver from the bridge. Below the bridge, there is only about a 1/4 mile or so before it meets up with the Skagit. It was packed with Pinks earlier in the season and had a few nice Coho as well but I haven't been back since the floods. There was some good water for Dollies. You should be able to find some nice quiet water if you're willing to do some hiking.

 

Without giving anything away....

Where can I find wading access on the Cascade? I'm just looking for general info/starting points.

I've heard there's a nice bull trout population there, as well as the various anadromous species showing up?

I haven't fished in about two months and I'm dyin'! o:

Tom

 

From a fly club newsletter of some years back...(therefore the info may be somewhat dated, rivers being rivers.) Principal accesses to lower river are walking up from the Skagit, the Rockport-Cascade Rd Bridge and walking in through the salmon hatchery, the road up the west bank above the bridge used to provide very limited access for about a mile before one encountered a locked gate. Access from the Cascade River Road on the east bank is limited in part due to the Cascade River Park property (private). Marble Creek Park Campground is the start of the upper river access--probably no more than 1/2 mile or less of good water downstream of campground before one is into Class 6 water that gives the river its well deserved name. There is at least one other bridge several miles upstream of Marble Creek.

Char fishing is decent in the lower river and the fish can run to pretty fair size. The upper water holds steelhead, salmon and other native trout and char.

Remember that this information may be dated so do explore and have fun. If I have spilled the beans on someone's honey water, tough--I first wrote about access to the Cascade River for the Northwest Fly Anglers newsletter over thirty years ago...

 

While we're on this thing on the Cascade river. Does anybody know why they shut down that campground on the South dide of the river. Drove up and found it one day when I was out exploring and when I went back several years later it was closed down. It was a good sized place. I think it was a DNR place. No funds?

Jim

 

Jim,

If the campground is above about river mile 7 then it should be, or in this case should have been, a Forest Service Campground, either Marble Creek at about river mile 9 or Mineral Park, which is another 10 miles further upstream. The Forest Service has the same funding or lack of funding problem that you mentioned for DNR, and many of their facilities are open on a limited seasonal basis and can even closed for a year or more at a time. I still use them for access...but it can be a real bummer if the outhouses are locked up for the season!
;-)

 

No,the one I'm talking about is on the South side of the river. I believe it was called Cascade Island. It is only up the river a couple of miles. The road in has a ditch dug in it and is pretty well hidden from being over grown. As for fishing from the south side of the river it is pretty limited. At least it was for me getting on it.

Jim

P/S By the time we get done talking about this river everyone will know about it. I have a buddy that says fishing for Steelhead on the fly is pretty good.

 

Cascade Island is on DNR land, I believe. It was flooded pretty well a few years back. I'm guessing that limited funding made it easier to close it down than try to regrade it. Too bad. It was lightly used in comparison to the two Forest Service campgrounds on the other side of the river, probably because it wasn't on most maps.

There used to be a deep hole near the campground that you could see fish in, but currents made it difficult to get a fly to the fish. The rest of the accessible water along this stretch was too fast to provide any holding areas for fish. I haven't been back there in five or six years, so it may be different now.