Gosh, do you suppose that the river has changed over the course of many years of floods? My, my, could it be that our over-educated salmon biologists haven't really considered this? My salmon index places (where I've had good success catching fish) have certainly changed. It seems to me that WDFW hasn't observed what is going on in the real natural world. For instance, over the last two decades, has our overall salmon size changed? Yup! Fish are considerably smaller now, and very less fecund, but have our escapement number goals changed to reflect that? Alot of the numbers/goals need to be reexamined.

I'm going hunting now. Maybe we'll have a good rain soon.