Post by: SkookumHntr on August 22, 2013, 10:06:42 AM
Post by: Slimdog350 on August 22, 2013, 10:15:39 AM
Post by: Hunterman on August 22, 2013, 10:18:19 AM
Hunterman(Tony)
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on August 22, 2013, 10:18:49 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on August 22, 2013, 10:20:43 AM
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/. (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
Post by: Hunterman on August 22, 2013, 10:42:06 AM
Hunterman(Tony)
Post by: robodad on August 22, 2013, 10:51:39 AM
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 !!
Post by: Hunterman on August 22, 2013, 10:57:33 AM
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)
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on August 22, 2013, 11:05:21 AM
Post by: WSU on August 22, 2013, 12:15:00 PM
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).
Post by: Kuduman on August 22, 2013, 01:27:20 PM
Post by: TONTO on August 22, 2013, 10:39:33 PM
Post by: huntnphool on August 22, 2013, 11:14:52 PM
Hatchery clippers miss clip or not clip thousands of hatchery fish. Tribes just plain dont clip sometimes.:yeah: 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". :chuckle:
Post by: huntnphool on August 22, 2013, 11:18:00 PM
Just add the word "native" and it should be good to go.
Post by: HntnFsh on August 23, 2013, 05:35:57 AM
Post by: L-ofalab on August 23, 2013, 05:45:10 AM
Post by: Tealer on August 25, 2013, 11:59:42 AM
The tribes only clip an estimated 60%
Most tribal fall kings are un clipped.
Post by: SkookumHntr on August 25, 2013, 08:07:54 PM
Post by: cohoho on August 26, 2013, 06:07:33 AM
A lot of weird looks for sure from folks when we were releasing nice Kings on Sat. :yike: Bet a lot of tickets got written, as the Troopers were out in force on the Oregon side with a ticket book in hand with not so many tickets left...
Post by: huntnphool on August 26, 2013, 09:46:32 AM
Not too bad for Friday's haul :tup: :tup: :tup: For four of us - We got 20 fish to the boat kept 8, Sat we boated 16 fish - kept 3.. And limits of crab...nice work Mike :tup:
A lot of weird looks for sure from folks when we were releasing nice Kings on Sat. :yike: Bet a lot of tickets got written, as the Troopers were out in force on the Oregon side with a ticket book in hand with not so many tickets left...
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on August 26, 2013, 11:03:31 AM
Friday had 5 to the boat with 3 keepers
Fished with Clancy Sat and had 17 on. 3 keepers.
Sunday was 24 by 11 am for 3 rods, only one keeper.