Salmon closes on CR

[Blacklab]

 
Closeing 2days early for all salmon and steelhead. B10 to pasco 395. Siteing low fish counts. Yet they allowed the grim reaper nets in 4 times.  My thought is why state low numbers of esa fish. When you allowed  grim reaper nets 4 times that were supposed be phased out by this year

[allen]

Yeah, hard to figure.  I counted 12 of them at the Ridgefield marina coming in with their loads.  I thought they were going to be restricted to off-channel fishing.  Our days get cut, but theirs don't?  All I know is if sportsmen caught to many, I'm not to blame.

[2MANY]

Fisheries management is sold in this state.

BS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Highhuntin]

limit was lowered to 1 upstream as well. I have done my part to protect the run by not catching any yet...

[Stein]

My guess is the run has been downgraded.  Both chinook and coho seemed to be under what the original numbers suggest.  That said, sportsmen had a fair shot at both, I would expect commercials to hit them as well.  It sucks seeing nets, but we split the quota.

[2MANY]

Emergency closure 2 days early is a joke.

Heard there was tons of fish.

Laughable management for a price.

[Stein]

Emergency closure 2 days early is a joke.

Heard there was tons of fish.

Laughable management for a price.

Who did you hear that from?  The coho run was not good, look at the guide reports from B10.  They never really showed up in force.  The chinook run was marginal at best, many days some of the best guides were coming back with 2 fish for 6 guys right during the peak when we were there.  Limits were the exception for the most part.

It was the complete opposite of what is going on in Puget Sound for whatever reason.

[2MANY]

I won't say who.

I will say he was slaughtering the kings earlier this week running double trips AM and PM.

It's probably good that WDFW closed the season and saved the run from him.

[Stein]

I won't say who.

I will say he was slaughtering the kings earlier this week running double trips AM and PM.

It's probably good that WDFW closed the season and saved the run from him.

I haven't watched the run the last two weeks but do know the B10 season was our worst in 15 years for both chinook and coho.  I don't go every year, but the rest of our fish camp does and hardly anybody was slaying them on any sort of regular basis down there.  We have 3 boats out every day and have a pretty good read on where they are doing well.

[2MANY]

I hear ya and you are correct B-10 was slow.

Some of my best years on certain streams they have done an emergency closure due to no fish.
Meanwhile we are slaying the fish.

I believe the emergency is largely political.

[gaddy]

So, am I to understand that fishing is closed because of poor returns, Yet there are still nets in the river ? All I saw was that the river was closed to fishing.

[metlhead]

Folks, just be happy that we will all be receiving our prorated refunds from our license purchase price.

[Stein]

So, am I to understand that fishing is closed because of poor returns, Yet there are still nets in the river ? All I saw was that the river was closed to fishing.

Sportsmen have a quota, commercials have a quota, tribes have a quota.  One group can hit their quota before the other does and their season is over.  Mid-season return updates can impact all three quotas.

It works the same for crab and shrimp, each group has a quota that is set before the season begins.