Bouy 10 Native King Fishery Closes Tomorrow :(

[SkookumHntr]

-Thought you might wanta know so your 4day trip isnt ruined like mine is but today is the last day. WDFW

[Slimdog350]

That sucks!  :bash:I just finished putting a new helm and steering cable in my buddies thunderjet so he could go down tomorrow.

[Hunterman]

I was hoping to get down there this year  looks like I blew it again 

Hunterman(Tony)

[wildmanoutdoors]

BS. Native Chinook retension closes. Not all Chinook...

[wildmanoutdoors]

Columbia River anglers fishing Buoy 10
 must release wild chinook starting Friday





OLYMPIA - Starting Friday (Aug. 23), anglers fishing at the Buoy 10 fishery near the mouth of the Columbia River will be required to release any wild chinook salmon they intercept, but are currently cleared to catch hatchery chinook through Sept. 1.
 
Those provisions of a new rule adopted today by fishery managers from Washington and Oregon are designed to minimize impacts on wild stocks, while allowing the popular fishing season to continue as previously planned.
 
Fishery managers from both states have scheduled another meeting Aug. 27 to review the catch and consider any necessary changes to the fishery.
 
Catch rates for chinook salmon have soared since the fishery opened Aug.1, prompting fishery managers to consider an early closure, said Ron Roler, Columbia River policy coordinator for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
 
In the past week, anglers fishing the Buoy 10 area in the lower 16 miles of the Columbia River have been catching up to 1,600 chinook per day, Roler said.
 
"Our primary concern is wild chinook bound for tributaries of the lower Columbia River to spawn," he said. "But fishery managers from both states agreed we could provide adequate protection for those fish without closing the chinook fishery ahead of schedule."
 
Under the rule approved today, anglers may retain only those chinook salmon marked as hatchery fish with a clipped adipose fin or a missing left ventral fin.
 
Barbless hooks are currently required to fish for salmon on the Columbia River, making it easier for anglers to release wild fish unharmed, Roler said.
 
Anglers fishing the Buoy 10 area have a two-fish daily limit, only one of which may be a chinook salmon. Hatchery coho and hatchery steelhead may be retained to make up the two-fish daily limit.
 
More information on current fishing regulations in Washington is available on WDFW's website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations/.
 
An estimated 678,000 fall chinook salmon are predicted to enter the Columbia River, well above the 10-year average. Fishing for hatchery and wild chinook is currently open from the mouth of the river upstream to Priest Rapids Dam in central Washington

[Hunterman]

Ok,, I have a question for some of you in the know. If we are to assume that ALL hatchery fish have been fin clipped, and we as great sportsmen & women release all non fin clipped fish, then why did the biologist wand both the (so called) native kings we caught?

Hunterman(Tony)

[robodad]

Ok,, I have a question for some of you in the know. If we are to assume that ALL hatchery fish have been fin clipped, and we as great sportsmen & women release all non fin clipped fish, then why did the biologist wand both the (so called) native kings we caught?

Hunterman(Tony)

There are secret biologists that go out and catch salmon and tag them so if there is a fish caught weather your in the derby or not with one of them tags they win double the prize, too bad yours wasn't one of them !!

[Hunterman]

There are secret biologists that go out and catch salmon and tag them so if there is a fish caught weather your in the derby or not with one of them tags they win double the prize, too bad yours wasn't one of them !!
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I knew I was getting the old double dipped

Hunterman(Tony)

[wildmanoutdoors]

Miss clips! Hatchery clippers miss clip or not clip thousands of hatchery fish. Tribes just plain dont clip sometimes.

[WSU]

Ok,, I have a question for some of you in the know. If we are to assume that ALL hatchery fish have been fin clipped, and we as great sportsmen & women release all non fin clipped fish, then why did the biologist wand both the (so called) native kings we caught?

Hunterman(Tony)

They put pit tags in the head of some hatchery fish that aren't clipped.  Doing so allows them to evaluate mark-selective fisheries (compare how many clipped/tagged return compared to unclipped/tagged). 

[Kuduman]

Bring on the COHO

[TONTO]

 Yet the ocean just opened for two chinook 

[huntnphool]

Hatchery clippers miss clip or not clip thousands of hatchery fish. Tribes just plain dont clip sometimes.

And the naturalists are always whining that the hatchery fish are destroying the native runs, when truth be told nobody really knows if that non clipped fish you just landed is hatchery or "native".

[huntnphool]

By the way, could one of you mods change the thread title to maybe "Bouy 10 Native King Fishery Closes Tomorrow" so people don't read it and miss out because of bad info.

Just add the word "native" and it should be good to go.

[HntnFsh]

IT aint all bad. A week ago Saturday when I was down there. 3 of the 4 fish we caught were clipped. And dont forget the ventral clipped fish is a keeper too. If you see an adipose on your fish take a close look at the ventral fin so you dont throw back a keeper!