God wants those fish on the gravel. Drought, then flood. Often have seen coho holding, for as long as two months, for conditions to improve.

Probably the best one, though, concerns a run of chum in HC. The escapement is estimated based on live counts done weekly. One dry year, the live counts were all zero. But, one week, between counts, there was a rainstorm/freshet. The fish came in, all spawned, and all died. Forgot to ask how they estimated the escapement for that creek that year. Probably the one day dead count.

When I was working a trap we had summer chum. Had one female come into the trap in the afternoon and I passed up up. Next morning, on the spawner survey, I found her dead. Checked, and she was 100% spawned out. Must have been a wild night.