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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...

My very first steelhead from the Skykomish was taken from the Afternoon hole in 1965 (can that really be 60 years ago!). Over the decades have caught fish from most of the length of that "Hole" with the riffle at the top being the best but also caught fish in the "corner" (where that first...

Dave- I too caught a number of steelhead from that backchannel but then I have always been drawn to such areas. Curt

Woolen needs to go

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Dave- Like the larger adult steelhead, I made the female call based on the head shape and shorter jaw. I remember Pete making that comment. In the fall or in the salt folks sometimes confuse chrome bright sea-runs (usually immature and/or female sea-runs) as mini steelhead. In those cases, a...

An interesting fish! Based on just that photo and what we know about the various salmonids in the "s" rivers here is my best "guess". Not a coho; while those rivers have some very late coho (spawning can last through March) by this time of year they would be exhibiting some coloration...

I understand that hwy 530 is open to one lane of alternating travel. With the floods and low chum runs the numbers of Skagit eagles is down from what they were a couple decades ago. That said photographers I know are finding some birds. An alternative for your mother might be a day trip on...

For years I would use a simple soft hackle with greyish/brown dubbed body with a fine gold rib and partridge hackle with fairly consistent success. That said the last few years have been using a suggestive callibaetis pattern that incorporates soft hackle principles and have been pleased with...