Well the Chehalis has a dirty little secret, we make escapement on the November portion of the run that does not show until the river blows big time. I have seen the early part of the run hang up in a dry year until the 3rd week of November when it finally rained and then everybody came at once. You could be right to be sure, I could be wrong also but we will se soon enough.

I think the thing is living on the river I can cheat! I see what is going on and that build up around the Sept 12th through the 20th was huge and nobody fished other than jacks. Coupled with the continued early rain Coho adults went way up river. We really have two Coho runs, Sept & Oct portion that stage up to wait to spawn and the Nov portion that moves right into the spawning grounds. If the back end is not there your right. If the backend is there then I will be right.