Recent content by Salmo_g

Fascinating! That would do far more than a little to explain the genetic similarity of the two populations. So essentially, Skagit and Stilly Chinook are a single population if that's what the data say. So now I gotta' ask, when will salmon management catch up to salmon biology?

With an inseam of 11 to 13", are they really "shorts?" I always enjoyed shorts that had a 3" inseam. Until Mrs. Salmo pointed out that as I've aged, I hang a bit too loose and am required to wear a 6" inseam in public.

I'm not sure that any management alternative for marine impacts would have any relevant or meaningful change to the status of Stilly Chinook. Under present environmental conditions, and the conditions that have persisted for the last few decades, Stilly Chinook cannot even replace themselves...

Closing the Stilly to all fishing (mainly sea run cutthroat and some steelhead) to protect the threatened Stilly Chinook means keeping the river closed for the next 100 to 150 years. It ain't coming back in any appreciable human time scale. I've advocated to anyone who will listen that the...

Uhm, no. There is no betting eating fish than a Columbia River spring run Chinook salmon. Based on my unscientific experiment of eating Chinook from as many different stocks of Chinook as I could, including Alaska's Copper River king salmon.

I don't go out of my way to violate the law. So I never looked into the legal ramifications regarding RR tracks. I cross RR tracks the same way I cross the road. I look both ways to make sure the way is clear, and then I walk across. That seems to work just fine.

Like were coexisting so well here on the west coast . . .

Wait, if the run forecast was 5,000, then allowable take is 500. 250 to non-treaty. At 1,346, we're at a calculated incidental mortality of 135. So over 100 to go and 15 fishing days to go. We should make it if everyone catches fish at the rate that I do.

Sadly, I don't think they are focusing on this at all. The big push in negotiations appears to be for fish passage around the dams, which is likely to spend a whole lot of money and not produce many, or any, additional fish. But I digress.

Yeah, mine came in 4 days. WDFW gets a few things right from time to time.

Whew! No trout in that part of the Missouri . . . (joking, in case you misunderestimated me) Yeah, I've exceeded my limit of free NYT articles, so can't read this one either.

Technology kinda' runs in cycles. The first radios were big pieces of furniture that had to be plugged into an electric wall socket and couldn't be taken anywhere. Then came the battery powered tiny transistor radio of the 60s that Booomers carried with them to the beach to listen to KJR and...

I've used Crown bags for fly reel storage for decades. Wish I could get more as I don't drink whiskey much.

Nuclear is like coal in that it is generally used as "base loading" for energy production. It lacks the intrinsic ability to rapidly ramp up or ramp down on the amount of generation. Unless the technology has changed.

Not meaning to speak for Curt, but I have some experience regarding this topic. Hydropower dams with storage reservoirs, contrasted with run-of-the-river dams, are "THE PREFERRED" alternative for meeting peak power demands because they can be turned from full off to full on to full off in about...