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Having participated in these since their inception it seems to me like these young steelhead seek open water if they can. Most of the fish I've sponsored have been Duwamish or Nisqually fish, and according to the STS tracker they all swan right up the middle of the Sound over deep water. Very...

Not surprising at all! But it is interesting, especially the recent trend of strong year classes every 3 years.

Thank you. My memory was earlier but I guess I'm just being impatient.

I've had bullets by me twice, both in SW WA on the same river. One time they were way up high in the trees and didn't seem all that scary. The other though one bullet hit a stump maybe 10-20 yards behind me. I heard the whizz and thump of the bullet hitting. That one was pretty scary and I...

Any guesses on when the LOAF will get posted? At 3 weeks and counting.

This is a good hook. As a kid I fished SRC with gear and would use this hook to replace the hooks on the triple teasers I used. This hook seemed to hold better than the stock hooks. Some of the strikes on light spinning gear were pretty epic. Haven't done it in years since I found fly...

Dr. Jeff Jensen at UW Bothell is doing work on Lk WA kokanee, including trying to figure out the make up of the population between residuals and natives. He has a blog which can be found with a simple google search. As best I can tell the population fluctuates pretty heavily year to year...

I got into kokanee last year on Lake Washington. They are really pretty fish. One of the interesting things is that while the green daphnia goop was probably the most common stomach item of the fish I cleaned, I cleaned one or two with small longfin smelt in them, as well as several fish whose...

For this summer (2024) anglers will/would be fishing on a summer steelhead planting of 80K smolts in the Skykomish. For the summer of 2025, any summer steelhead fishing in the Skykomish will be on a smolt plant of 26K. Regardless of what's going on with Skykomish chinook that doesn't sound...

Respectfully I think my quote above is out of context and to be fair I could have been clearer in my post which the quote is taken from. I am not questioning the State's ability to monitor the fisheries listed in the LOAFs of the past several years, or for those agreed to this upcoming year...

No disagreement on it being an opportunity missed. I'm not sure that a fishery going over one of the various fishery controls is too much cause for concern in this context assuming that it is exploitation rates that really matter. State fisheries have frequently exceeded various NOF controls...

It does seem like this year was an ideal year for 1:1 trading of Stillaguamish impacts in freshwater fisheries to achieve the 50/50 sharing that we've been told is very important to the Stillaguamish Tribe. I wonder if there are other reasons for the State apparently not pursuing that. I...

Last I looked he had some interesting videos up on youtube. Truly a character. I had one of his VHS on fishing Manchester as a kid. I loved that video.

I caught a decent sized rezzie for this time of year in 10 last week, around 16-17". Saw lots of mid water marks on the sounder that looked to be residents too.

Did I hear correctly in the call this morning that the ability of the department to provide test fishing/monitoring is a limiting factor in the department opening multiple marine areas simultaneously? I have for a while now suspected that might be a factor, but it was always just conjecture...

I think the most surprising thing to me in Friday's meeting was the slide showing "poor" chinook returns in 2023 for the Green and Lake Washington system.

When I was first learning the Sound the conventional wisdom was the South Sound resident coho migrated north to area 9/10 (or further) in the spring to feed all summer. In the past i have caught residents in area 11 during the spring which would seem consistent with this understanding. If fall...

What did the rise forms look like? Can you describe them?

Yes I received the same and have registered as well.

I live in NE Seattle and my wife and I visit Magnuson Park on Lake Washington often. I think I've heard frogs there just about every month of the year.