The Sauk seems to be a bit slower that the Skagit for bulls right now. I expect it to get better over the next month or so. I suspect that the warm, low-water conditions of the late summer and fall have delayed spawning somewhat. I've been fishing rabbit strip patterns with bead-chain eyes and several of the fish that I've caught recently have been real beauties, with pale orange-pink bellies and very pronounced white stripes on the forward edges of the pectoral, ventral and anal fins. On the day after Thanksgiving I caught one that must have gone a good five pounds.
I usually look for the same sort of water where one would expect to find steelhead. Right now, they seem to be hanging around the spawning chums but, being opportunistic feeders they seem to be perfectly willing to whack anything that looks like a baitfish.
