Coho run coming up short?

I think its tail wagging the dog has a lot to do with it as in tribal & WFC . Such as tribal telling WDFW they are fishing the Skagit. No ask just telling them. Who can blame them when fisheries know salt water guy’s are going over the projected numbers but keep the salt fisheries open anyway.
 
I have not been down there to look, but two people have independently told me that there are lots of sea lions at the locks and that they are chowing down on the coho. So perhaps that is part of the story, there were loads of coho out in the sound before this last rain event.
I went down to the locks 3 times this summer and fall. Mid August, early September and mid September
Didn't see a single fish.
 
 
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