I always thought that too. The closest we've come in many many recent years is last summer, when a good deal of the intercept mixed stock fisheries were trimmed due to covid, travel and fishing restrictions, and some degree of lessened commercial impact due to low market demand/price. I'm not saying the slaughter was cancelled, but it was muted to some degree. The preseason run forecast wasn't stellar but it wasn't abysmal either, and I thought my local returns in the south Sound would really shine. They didn't, the run fizzled, and the fishing was on the whole still pretty lousy.

Granted that's a pretty anecdotal little data point, but still I'd hoped for a little more in the strike zone,

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