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Has Colorado even had a winning season in the P12? Good riddance

Salmo will blame it on ocean conditions, however, those of us "in the know" see right through it. The SAR dropped the day he stepped foot in office.

Man, alot of great advise in this thread. I'm a long ways from retirement and from my perspective start investing as early as you can, even if it's $100/month, find a career in something you love to do, make time to enjoy your passions. If you wake up everyday enjoying life, then you aren't...

That should be enough rain to bring the humpies into the sound...

The general system doesn't support the traditional fisheries that many of us grew up with. Our general society(in WA St) doesn't value what alot of us here do. River and stream fishing, steelhead and salmon fishing have been replaced. When you cross the border into Idaho and Montana...

@GOTY

The entire NF and SF are closed, but all tributaries are open? That's how i read it. It effectively shuts down fishing for resident fish and summer steelhead. If this is the case, might as well permanently close these rivers for good because the Chinook will never return to amount to...

Guys like @Stonedfish and @JACKspASS can turn the sprinklers on and sit in a lawn chair drinking beer in the lawn and dream of mid November

For all of you complaining about watering, install an irrigation system! It was the best investment I made. Drip irrigate all flower beds and non lawn related trees and shrubs, it only waters the individual plant, not broadcasting to areas where water is wasted(bark, rock, sidewalks, etc...)...

It's great to tip the cap to the ones that came before. The history and stories from the angling past on our rivers and lakes are intriguing. Sometimes i wish I could turn the dial on the time machine....

At 67deg you are good in the shade, walk out in the full sun and it's Frosty the Stoneyman meltdown

2000-2003ish was the last good years I remember when they outplanted most major tributaries on alot of Puget sound rivers. Most small rivers had a small plant of 20k summers which doesn't sound like much but when you factor in their propensity to stray, it made for some lousy to decent fishing...

Are those wild fish at the same levels as they were when we were planting fish? Interesting to see data on that. I see where you are going Yard with the wild fish being the constraining stock

Steelhead tag $300 with yearly fluctuations based on 5yr avg returns? Throw in beer garden and hotdog stand at Reiter, Blue crk, Fortson, etc...sell T-Shirts(I caught a chromer in 2027) ?

Awesome! Hi @swimmy

I pay more than my fare share, then bitch about it....

I know Salmo likes to hammer home the smolt to adult survival rate being terrible, which he is correct, however, .005% of 80k is indeed terrible, .005% of 500k is putting us in the ballgame. From a business perspective of cost per adult, it's terrible, there is no easy answer. My solution is...

Summer steelhead are such great sport. They are available from the opener all the way through October. I've caught fresh chrome fish as late as Sept. The days are long, they can be caught at any hour, good eating, fight great, they typically spread out throughout a watershed providing lots of...

They need to plant 300k summers at Reiter and 75k in every trib with water running in it in summer. We would have a halfassed decent fishery. With those #'s we would still have lousy to decent fishing with a good year thrown in here and there. With 80k planted for the entire system, might as...

@DanielOcean