Olympic Fly Fishers Meeting Tonight - Biology of Bull Trout

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Just saw this and figured worth sharing even though the meeting is tonight.
Will be worth attending if you have time.

https://myedmondsnews.com/2026/11/fisheries-biologist-thomas-quinn-to-speak-at-olympic-fly-fishers-nov-10-meeting/

 

[Zoran]

I hope he will record and share it.

 

[jeradjames]

Yeah if it’s recorded I would definitely like to see it. I opted for the WDFW coastal steelhead forecast/season proposals instead…

 

[speedbird]

If any of you folks made it sorry I missed you! Was a great lecture. I took a class with Professor Quinn on salmonid life history and it was my favorite class I took at UW

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

If any of you folks made it sorry I missed you! Was a great lecture. I took a class with Professor Quinn on salmonid life history and it was my favorite class I took at UW

Fish 320 was his class if I remember correctly. Awesome class, awesome guy.

Glad you got to make it. Any fun nuggets worth sharing?

 

[speedbird]

Fish 320 was his class if I remember correctly. Awesome class, awesome guy.

Glad you got to make it. Any fun nuggets worth sharing?

FSH 450 is what I took! Might have been remembered.

This slide was particularly fascinating to me:



Was really cool to learn about how the bull rotate recolonizing the lower elwha as the salmon recolonize the upper elwha. Tom also told us a fascinating story about hooking a 16” Bull on the skagit and watching a fish more than double its size attempt to eat it off his hook