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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: bowhunterforever on September 25, 2009, 05:10:56 PM

Title: Puyallup River close?
Post by: bowhunterforever on September 25, 2009, 05:10:56 PM: When does the river close for salmon? Hopefully its still open oct. 9th-13th.
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: bowhunterforever on September 27, 2009, 12:27:23 AM: Anybody been doing any good down there lately?
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: Alchase on September 28, 2009, 10:56:15 AM: Regs are here see page 50

http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/regs/2009/2009sportregs.pdf

salmon closes on the Puyallup, Dec 31 except above Electron closes Oct. 31.

It has been slow lately needs a real good rain to bring the silvers in in numbers.
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: bearhunter59 on September 28, 2009, 07:43:12 PM: didn't I read a WDFW news release a week or so ago that the Puyallup was closed to recreational fishers for two days a week so the tribes could slaughter without confrontations from the non-tribals???
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: Alchase on September 29, 2009, 12:30:36 PM: Yes, here it is

September 10, 2009
Contact: Pat Pattillo, (360) 902-2705

Lower section of the Puyallup River
will close two days a week to sport fishing

OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is closing the recreational fishery on the lower section of the Puyallup River two days a week through the end of September due to safety concerns.

Recreational salmon fishing on the river will be closed from noon Sundays to noon Tuesdays, Sept. 13-15, Sept. 20-22 and Sept. 27-29 in the portion of the river extending from the 11th Street Bridge in Tacoma to the City of Puyallup Outfall Structure across the river from the junction of Freeman Road and North Levee Road. This section of the river flows through the Puyallup Tribe's reservation.

Recreational fishing will remain open seven days a week upstream of the closed section. The lower section will reopen seven days a week beginning at noon Sept. 29.

With a strong return of pink salmon this year, hundreds of recreational anglers are fishing the river, which is also open to tribal fishing two days a week, said Pat Pattillo, salmon policy coordinator for WDFW.

"Unfortunately, we've received reports about gear conflicts and other incidents between the two groups, raising public safety concerns," Pattillo said. "To reduce the safety risk and ensure that the tribe and the state can conduct an orderly fishery, the department is closing this section of the river."

Pattillo said WDFW enforcement officers will patrol the river to ensure the sport fishery closure is being observed.

Regulations remain unchanged for other sections of the Puyallup River as described in the 2009-10 Fishing in Washington pamphlet available at http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/regs/fishregs.htm.
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: TheHunt on September 29, 2009, 01:28:59 PM: Yep, it got really ugly down there. Soooo many people then the indians trying to put out nets. Puyallup tribal police (who cares), Fife Police, Puyallup Police, Washington State Partol and Washington Fish and Game.
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: bowhunterforever on September 30, 2009, 12:26:23 AM: Quote from: TheHunt on September 29, 2009, 01:28:59 PM
Yep, it got really ugly down there. Soooo many people then the indians trying to put out nets. Puyallup tribal police (who cares), Fife Police, Puyallup Police, Washington State Partol and Washington Fish and Game.
That doesn't sound like that much fun.Think it will be like that in october?
Title: Re: Puyallup River close?
Post by: Alchase on September 30, 2009, 06:36:32 AM: I just fish upstream of Puyallup and pray for rain. Not as many Billy Bobs snagging pinks and they hate to fish in the rain, lol.