December? If they kept the river closed until November 1st it would be piss poor management of chinook and the coho fishery that is supposedly huge. If it’s not open by November…people really need to just go fishing at that point. The amount of rain we are getting in the next 5 days should be more than enough…but they would rather sit on their thumbs and “use an abundance of caution” approach, rather than use a little common sense.

I’m starting to think most of the people working for the department spent most of their younger life in a classroom learning about fisheries rather than spending time on the river. A bunch of overpaid paper pushers have less idea what is going on in the river than the average fisherman. That’s just sad. Likely had some of their student loans paid off by most of you (well, $10,000 of it) just be piss poor at their “job”.