(Responding to Rivrguy)

Right. It still surprises me that they are willing to overlook the low spawning numbers on the Nooch and other lower river tributaries, to allow a retention fishery. From my personal experience, I last fished the Nooch for Coho in 2020, and while I caught fish, it certainly wasn't red hot fishing like the Satsop or Hump. The department must know this. Why push these populations even closer to the brink when there are other rivers with large numbers of hatchery fish or healthier wild populations? Honest question. Does it have something to do with "opportunity"?