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Harvest all the perch you want, they are excellent table fare! That said there is no way that the recreation fleet can keep them in check to the point they don't hind the trout survival. Even a switch to catchables is not fool proof solution. Catchables will keep the fishery going though they...

Generally immature Chinook on inland waters are referred to blackmouth or sometimes feeder Chinook. Just to make things a little more confusing 50 plus years ago jack Chinook (2-year mature males) in rivers were defined as Chinook of less than 28 inches. Today here in Puget Sound the...

Unfortunately, Puget Sound Chinook have gotten surprising young. The last two years of available CWT information (2023 and 2024) showed that the average Chinook age of the harvested Chinook in MAs 9 and 10 was 3.15 years. Those 4 to 8# fish are mostly 3-year-olds, and the vast majority are...

Moving back to the Skagit - "A Two-decade Watershed Approach to Stream Restoration Log Jam Design and Stream Recovery Monitoring: Finney Creek, Washington", Nichols and Ketcheson, 2013. "Finney Creek was once the most productive salmon stream in the lower Skagit River (WDFW and Western...

ELJs (engineered log jams) can come with a short cost to the fish resource which often is not considered. A couple of examples In the early 1990s the USFS installed a log structure in a mid-sized Sauk tributary that had blown out (upstream logging?) during the summer. The stream supported...

If I were the Skagit czar my first action would be to end the power peaking generation from the upper Skagit projects. By ending those nearly daily floods with rapid flow increases and decreases would almost immediately provide up to a 10-fold increases in peak insect abundances and...

In the comments in both the federal registrar and in the public meetings leading up to the listing of PS steelhead and other ESUs the importance of the resident rainbows to the O. mykiss complex was a issue of debates. The in the hall discussions with the Feds implied that omission was not...

With populations with significant escapement contributions from repeat spawners, we see two very different populations response between that with limited recruitment (say with following a drought or low flows - climate change driven) and when those repeat spawners experience excessive harvest...

I arbitrary drew that line at fish of 30 inches or more.

A bit more about that potential impact on bull trout during sockeye fisheries. According to the co-managers "list of agreed to fisheries" (LOAF) in recent years the Swinomish tribe planned sockeye fishery in Skagit bay as well as the main Skagit begins the middle of June and last 5 weeks. In...

Salmo_g The salmon fishery that is largely impacting the bull trout is the sockeye fishery. By the early 2000s the majority of the adult bull trout had the anadromous life-history. Of those adult anadromous bull trout 1/2 or more were repeat spawners Those repeat spawners typically weighted...

With NOF starting today here is a proposal to modify the Skagit regulations to address concerns regarding the bull trout and resident rainbows in the basin. Please click on the attachment for the details of the proposal. I am happy to answer any questions or take your ideas. I also encourage...

To understand our anadromous coastal cutthroat I think it is best to start with their basic biology. They are essentially small low gradient creek fish. It is this habitat where they spawn and where they rear until large enough to make the transition to saltwater (usually after 2 years of...

I suspect that at least part of the explanation is the lack of access to those summer fish due to reduced summer seasons due to Chinook concerns.

Another vote for weightless flies! If I were to limit myself to one fly line for subsurface bass (especially smallmouth) it would be a full sinking line with a type 6 sink rate. With that setup by varying the time to allow the line to sink and retrieve rates can easily cover anything from a...

Checked the co-manager's future brood document of 2026 which shows planned program for this year. At Reiter the goal remains 116,000 summers and 140,000 winters and at Wallace 27,600 winters. These fish would be released in 2027 with adults returning mostly in 2029. Also programed to take...

Did a little poking around on the WWW and found the following" "Angler Harvest of Alsea River hatchery winter steelhead" an Evaluation of wild broodstock collection techniques", ODFW 2020 One of the findings was: "Broodstock collection methon had a strong effect on the number of adult...

Doublespey- After the first decade of the Snider Creek program thanks to the monitoring going on then, I was able compare the return rates of the Chambers Creel/early winter smolts and the Snider Creek smolts. The Chambers fish returned at a much higher rate than the Snider Creek fish. Not...

Late November of 1995?

Yes, you will hear from me that this bill will have dubious benefit to most of our wild steelhead populations. Have followed this idea for nearly 50 years and have seen little evidence that such programs lead to "healthy" steelhead populations. Yes, many in Oregon claim great success but to...