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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...

Yesterday (3/03/2025) I repeated my unscientific bug count on the North Fork. I visited the same 3 sites and once again turned over 20 stones at each site counting the mayflies. Saw an increase in bugs in all 3 sites. At the Hazel site in 2024 had 2 mayflies, in 2025 I found 18 At the Grant...

Our steelhead do migrate west and north into the Pacific some of go west of the international dateline. Most of the coho stay along the coast and the continental shelf. Part of the issue with the steelhead is that with a warmer ocean their forage area is pushed further north into the Gulf of...

What is that 4 quakes in the last few days in the Puget Sound basin? None particularly large but have to wonder whether those quakes are just relieving stress or a sign of something larger in the offering. curt

In the Columbia River discussion in NOF the summer steelhead forecast was given. Not Good News! For the A stocks the hatchery forecast was 55,600 (last year's return was 121,576). The wild forecast was19,000 (last year's return was 36,543) For the B stocks the hatchery forecast was 11,800...

I agree with the dubbed fur (seal?) body. I think that the orange and yellow bodied flies on the right may have been tied drake gadwall flank feathers. I always have a few gadwall spiders in my cutthroat box as changeup flies. Also looks like there was some serious high grading in the flank...

Let's further explore some potential issues with wild steelhead brood stock programs. For this hypnotical river program, I assumed that we have a wild population of 500 wild winter steelhead adults from which 50 brood stock will be collected using hook and line. For key smolt/spawner and...

I assume the video in question is the recent video on the Sandy River brood stock program. I had watched it prior to this discussion and again before responding to this tread. Bottom line the video gives no information on the number of brood stock taken, the number of smolts released, the...

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