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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: plugger on September 19, 2019, 04:18:03 AM

Title: reach goes to one fish
Post by: plugger on September 19, 2019, 04:18:03 AM: Starting Friday, limit drops to one fish. The numbers are starting to look good over mcnary, Looks like the fish are just late this year, my guess is the water was to warm and they held up in the lower river, but I guess that doesn't matter at this point.
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: Fishmaker57 on September 19, 2019, 07:26:10 AM: Let's do the math: 60,000 more Falls over Bonneville to date, 7,000 less over McNary......hmmm. Seems like the Treaty Tribes are making up for no summer fishery?

Just my :twocents:
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: huntandjeep on September 19, 2019, 04:59:07 PM: Figures I have a guide booked for Sunday to take the family
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: Stein on September 19, 2019, 07:53:19 PM: Quote from: Fishmaker57 on September 19, 2019, 07:26:10 AM
Let's do the math: 60,000 more Falls over Bonneville to date, 7,000 less over McNary......hmmm. Seems like the Treaty Tribes are making up for no summer fishery?

Just my :twocents:

There are 150 river miles there for the fish to stack in as well as numerous tributaries.
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: plugger on September 20, 2019, 04:44:13 AM: The fish we have been getting are way darker than normal for this time of year. I don't fish for them after oct 1st, to me that seems to be when you really need to start picking through them. The fish this year are more like the October fish. Like they have been hanging in the river somewhere. Hoping the surge that is coming are better quality. Fishing four days next week. That will probably be it for me.
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: huntnnw on September 20, 2019, 07:23:17 AM: Quote from: Stein on September 19, 2019, 07:53:19 PM
Quote from: Fishmaker57 on September 19, 2019, 07:26:10 AM
Let's do the math: 60,000 more Falls over Bonneville to date, 7,000 less over McNary......hmmm. Seems like the Treaty Tribes are making up for no summer fishery?

Just my :twocents:

There are 150 river miles there for the fish to stack in as well as numerous tributaries.
That’s it :rolleyes:
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: huntandjeep on September 21, 2019, 05:28:28 PM: Leaving in the morning and cant figure out the rule . Can someone explain the " Daily limit 6 , up to 2 adults ( 1 now that they changed it ) can be kept " . Assuming must be over 12" to keep it and over 24" is adult ?
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: plugger on September 21, 2019, 06:55:18 PM: Yes, that's correct. Once you keep the adult potion of your limit (1 adult) Then you can no longer fish. If you catch 4 jacks before you keep an adult, you can keep them.
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: plugger on September 21, 2019, 07:10:07 PM: I wish they would just keep it at two until the quota is reached then close it. The fish quality is so much better early and they would be left alone while they are spawning. The guides are the only ones I see benefitting from the extending the season.
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: Smokeploe on September 23, 2019, 07:23:51 AM: What happened to make the rules simple and easy to understand?
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: dilleytech on September 23, 2019, 01:42:46 PM: Quote from: plugger on September 21, 2019, 07:10:07 PM
I wish they would just keep it at two until the quota is reached then close it. The fish quality is so much better early and they would be left alone while they are spawning. The guides are the only ones I see benefitting from the extending the season.

Guides love a one fish limit
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: huntnnw on September 23, 2019, 10:09:02 PM: hearing that possibly tomorrow or Wednesday that it could go back to 2 fish since escapement goal has been reached at McNary
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: Mr Mykiss on September 24, 2019, 08:55:14 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on September 23, 2019, 10:09:02 PM
hearing that possibly tomorrow or Wednesday that it could go back to 2 fish since escapement goal has been reached at McNary
That or shut down almost the entire Columbia...
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: plugger on September 26, 2019, 04:17:51 AM: :yeah: Yep, its shut down from 395 down, its going to get crowded. Every guide in the state will me migrating to the reach
Title: Re: reach goes to one fish
Post by: Mr Mykiss on September 26, 2019, 09:32:26 PM: The days are numbered in the reach...if you’re thinking about going>>>>go now!!!