Brewster

[hunthard]

Looks like a pretty solid run of Sockeye this year, any guess if they will increase the limit?

[Caseyd]

Should of already been upped. Rumor is WDFW doesnt want more people to pack in which would happen if upped.

I was out Friday. 5 person sockeye limit by 7am. Fished for kings the rest of the day with zero in the boat.

[Fishmaker57]

Should be going up this week; WDFW was waiting for a run count on the Wenatchee, so they could open the Lake at the same time as upping the limit.

[skidynastar33]

I just heard Monday it will go to 4 fish. Should have been 4 fish a long time ago but they trying to spread people out because...... idk. Fish deeper....

[Stein]

Good news, actually surprised it wasn't shut down.  Go get em boys!

[hunthard]

Headed over tomorrow

[Fishmaker57]

It's official, limit goes to 4 starting Monday, along with opening the Lake Wenatchee Sockeye season.

[Stein]

Where is the announcement?  I didn't see it in emergency rules.

[Fishmaker57]

Its at the bottom of the home page....not sure why it isn't in the emergency rule section.

[B4noon]

Slow out there today but the tribe had a huge boat with 3 tenders running a purse seine in the mouth of the okanagon and they were getting a ton running boats with totes back and forth didn’t know they could do that but my guess is increased limit for recreational fame to late

[HillHound]

Slow out there today but the tribe had a huge boat with 3 tenders running a purse seine in the mouth of the okanagon and they were getting a ton running boats with totes back and forth didn’t know they could do that but my guess is increased limit for recreational fame to late

I didn’t know there was anything they couldn’t do. Probably not supposed to be just stripping eggs out and dumping carcasses either but it sure is the norm at least on some rivers like the Skagit

[270Shooter]

So how crazy will that place be this weekend? A zoo I imagine?

[Caseyd]

My guess is this weekend isn’t super crazy. Limit doesn’t increase until Monday.

[cbond3318]

Seems to be a lot of campers with boats in tow pulling out of town today.

[Fishmaker57]

Slow out there today but the tribe had a huge boat with 3 tenders running a purse seine in the mouth of the okanagon and they were getting a ton running boats with totes back and forth didn’t know they could do that but my guess is increased limit for recreational fame to late

I didn’t know there was anything they couldn’t do. Probably not supposed to be just stripping eggs out and dumping carcasses either but it sure is the norm at least on some rivers like the Skagit

The Colville Tribe is running the purse seine for two reasons, to collect Chinook Brood for the hatchery, and to harvest up to 10% of the Sockeye. The Sockeye number is big this year, and they probably won't come close to catching 34,000, but that is the harvest agreement with WDFW. As for Chinook, they only keep wild fish for brood, once they reach that number, all wild fish are released (only Tribe in the state that can say that). Bear in mind, without the Tribe's hatchery, there would be far less Chinook for us to catch.

[WSU]

Purse seining is about as fish-friendly as you can get.  It's a far cry better than the state sponsored gillnetting.

[dutchmanaz]

"The Colville Tribe is running the purse seine for two reasons, to collect Chinook Brood for the hatchery, and to harvest up to 10% of the Sockeye. The Sockeye number is big this year, and they probably won't come close to catching 34,000, but that is the harvest agreement with WDFW. As for Chinook, they only keep wild fish for brood, once they reach that number, all wild fish are released (only Tribe in the state that can say that). Bear in mind, without the Tribe's hatchery, there would be far less Chinook for us to catch."

Thanks for the thoughtful and factual insight into this, instead of the usual indian bashing that some of our jealous members love to rail against. 

[bear]

Found this video of the Brewster boat lunch.

[huntnnw]

Just say no to Brewster ...

[funkster]

Found this video of the Brewster boat lunch.

Thanks for the laugh! That was classic!

[hunthard]

Fished the Brewster pool Thursday night, Friday morning and night and today Saturday morning, the morning bite is really where it's at, yeah they catch fish in the evening,we did to but the morning is better by a land slide, the boat ramp really wasn't that bad, we launched around 4:30 a.m. and there were about 6 boats in line, for 2 ramps. Tons of people out there today but mostly all really nice, we caught 2 kings and 6 sockeye so we didn't kill em but we did alright and I got to spend some quality time with my son so that counts for a lot more in my book, go catch em guys...

[Lucky1]

Found this video of the Brewster boat lunch.

Thanks for the laugh. The mini van did awesome!

[Sutherland]

That is awesome!