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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: hunthard on July 27, 2020, 10:49:40 AM

Title: Brewster
Post by: hunthard on July 27, 2020, 10:49:40 AM: Looks like a pretty solid run of Sockeye this year, any guess if they will increase the limit?
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Caseyd on July 27, 2020, 11:16:49 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Fishmaker57 on July 27, 2020, 11:20:39 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: skidynastar33 on July 28, 2020, 09:02:17 PM: 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....
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Stein on July 28, 2020, 09:03:21 PM: Good news, actually surprised it wasn't shut down. Go get em boys!
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: hunthard on July 29, 2020, 06:14:39 AM: Headed over tomorrow :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Fishmaker57 on July 29, 2020, 02:00:02 PM: It's official, limit goes to 4 starting Monday, along with opening the Lake Wenatchee Sockeye season.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Stein on July 29, 2020, 02:05:07 PM: Where is the announcement? I didn't see it in emergency rules.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Fishmaker57 on July 29, 2020, 03:16:44 PM: Its at the bottom of the home page....not sure why it isn't in the emergency rule section.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: B4noon on July 29, 2020, 03:45:33 PM: 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
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: HillHound on July 29, 2020, 05:08:58 PM: Quote from: B4noon on July 29, 2020, 03:45:33 PM
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
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: 270Shooter on July 30, 2020, 02:00:09 PM: So how crazy will that place be this weekend? A zoo I imagine?
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Caseyd on July 30, 2020, 02:22:37 PM: My guess is this weekend isn’t super crazy. Limit doesn’t increase until Monday.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: cbond3318 on July 30, 2020, 02:51:34 PM: Seems to be a lot of campers with boats in tow pulling out of town today.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Fishmaker57 on July 30, 2020, 03:07:12 PM: Quote from: HillHound on July 29, 2020, 05:08:58 PM
Quote from: B4noon on July 29, 2020, 03:45:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: WSU on July 30, 2020, 03:26:10 PM: Purse seining is about as fish-friendly as you can get. It's a far cry better than the state sponsored gillnetting.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: dutchmanaz on July 30, 2020, 07:08:35 PM: "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.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: bear on July 30, 2020, 08:45:32 PM: Found this video of the Brewster boat lunch.
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: huntnnw on July 30, 2020, 09:57:43 PM: Just say no to Brewster ...
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: funkster on July 30, 2020, 10:24:38 PM: Quote from: bear on July 30, 2020, 08:45:32 PM
Found this video of the Brewster boat lunch.

Thanks for the laugh! That was classic!
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: hunthard on August 01, 2020, 06:02:59 PM: 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...
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Lucky1 on August 01, 2020, 06:49:33 PM: Quote from: bear on July 30, 2020, 08:45:32 PM
Found this video of the Brewster boat lunch.
:chuckle: Thanks for the laugh. The mini van did awesome!
Title: Re: Brewster
Post by: Sutherland on August 01, 2020, 07:33:24 PM: That is awesome! :tup: