Within established bag limits, under NO circumstances should an angler EVER be required to release a hatchery fish! JFC.... it's a BIOLOGICAL FREEBIE! Real-time impact is accruing ANY time gear is still deployed in the water. The ability to retain ANY hatchery fish helps that angler fill his bag that much quicker, allowing him to tag out sooner and get his gear out of the water. Then and ONLY then does his impact upon the wild resource stop.
It's not "late" yet. We just had the best numbers of the fall and we're still a couple days short of the ten year average peak.
Patience grasshopper. The 1M fall Chinook count in 2015 had a peak count on Sep 10 and a 50% passage point of Sep 11, both of which are several days later than average. Too early to hit the panic button.
Last year the nets took just under 9,000 Coho. 5,000 of them during the mark select tangle net fishery.
I'm not in panic mode. I'm still able to get fish everyday, it just feels more like springer fishing then fall fishing at the moment.
If they aren't, you can follow them 😊😊😊😊😉
My point is/was that with 185,000 over the dam (and ??? to the tribs) 4,000 in the gill nets is a small number. Add in a 50% mark rate and the take of wild coho is even smaller.
Show the graph for McNary dam if you want to be depressed.
They are coming
Hoping it’s just the warm temps holding them back. What is concerning me is how few have even crossed the Dalles so far.
You wouldn’t believe how many chinook are held up in the lower tribs right now.
Yes, it's such an insignificant number why even count them, right? An indiscriminate 2000 wilds off their redds...........no big deal. jc
Here’s why us upriver guys are getting cranky when people talk about extensions downriver.
