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I'm sure that will be a significant effort to thin the numbers by the commercial interest prior to reaching the river. In today's world there always is the chance of another heat wave resulting in elevating stream temperatures and lower Dissolved oxygen and we will see in river mortalities. It...

With a record number of pinks heading to the Fraser (27 million!) this is the year to dial that the fishery in.

Over the last few years, I have used anchor ropes that were white, black, orange and blue. Have lost fish in all those colors at about the same rates. I think the biggest factor in losing to the anchor rope is that the fish are seeking safety by ducking into the shade provide by the boat...

Humpy hollow is the southern part of MA 8-1, that area south of Mukilteo.

My recollection of the NOF discussions is the same as Stonedfish, that is not pinks retention allowed in MA 8-2. There was some discussion as to when to open Port Susan for coho, whether August 1st or early September. The reason for the lack of a pink season in Port Susan was the below...

Regarding release mortality of sea-run cutthroat. As I recall from the literature typical with trout estimates the release mortality with flies typically are in the 5% or lower range (interestingly the is not a large difference between barded and barbless hooks). Much of the mortality happens...

Scary news - best wishes for positive results from the surgery and full and speedy recovery! Second the need to be an aggressive advocate for your own health care! An aside, the Cologuard kit is handy but not fool proof with both false positives and negatives. After several Cologuard negative...

The "best" weight rod to use depends on a lot of variables. I keep waiting for another year like 2001. Between 1953 and 2001 only a single 8# pink made it to the boat. In 2001 there was only a single day h at least 1 8# pink was not caught with a number of fish between 10 and 12# chrome...

WW/Salmo_g - I seriously doubt that there is any accepted in-season-update (ISU). Suspect the best they can do is that the expect to catch to date is significantly less than expected (5,151/7019 or 73%???). The folks I have talked with have generally commented on the size of fish being...

flybill- According to the WDFW's release Thursday is the last day so plan accordingly.

WDFW just announced the fishery closes April 11 (last day of fishing April 10th). Run size downgraded to 5,151. Curt

Generally speaking, brown bullheads and their cousin's diet is mostly insects with chironomids often being the most common consumed insect. My choice of flies and presentation would a chironomid or micro leeches suspend a foot or so often the bottom under an indicator. They tend to be...

Triploids are available at the Nisqually trout farm. On the co-manager's future brood document, I don't see where Puyallup hatchery is raising any triploids. Generally speaking, on western Washington lowland lakes triploids provide an immediate boost to the fishery but the fish do not seem to...

At last night's NOF meting I brought this issue. Kelly Cunningham (head of fish management) reported this is still on the chopping block and the budget issues may well go into a special session. He seemed to be hopeful that they could recovery some funding. I asked if they were to get...

To expand a bit on Ira's post above. During the night (especially during the longer winter nights) winds tend to blow the surface water and daphnia to the far shoreline. If there are steady winds from the same direction for several days the majority of the daphnia will end up on the opposite...

Daphnia and other copepods and other small critters our common in our lake. Daphnia is the one most commonly found in out throat samples. While also small their size varies as they grow towards maturity, there can be multiple generations of daphnia during the course of year. Their color...

For now bracket looking good - had 8 wins in the round of 16!

an update -Got a WDFW email yesterday reporting that the QuickSilver piece of the Salmon and steelhead monitoring package has been cut. "$1.6 million for the nex two years has been cut in the preliminary budget proposals from both House and Senate". Don't know the fate of the other pieces of...

Chris - Does the line item "salmon and steelhead monitoring" mean that PS and other area salmon seasons also at risk? Curt

Putting pink runs into some sort of historic context illustrate how extra-ordinary this years south Sound and Hood Canal forecasts are. The long time (1961 to 1999) escapement goal for the Puyallup is 19,000. In the 10 runs prior to 2000 that goal was met only 3 times. This year's forecast...