Tug, I have had a boat at Pt. Defiance for close to 50 years (My dad before me) and have never seen anything like this as far as unclipped fish. I know one of the people for many years who fishes on the WDFW test boat. He said that his boat has caught a total of three sublegals since Area 11 opened on June 1. And they fish on days when it is closed to the sport anglers. It was open 4 days/week for sport anglers (4 days on/3 off). Sport angling was open a total of 16 days in June and July (8 days in June and 8 days in July).
I don't know what the tribal boat catch was or what kind of gear, lures and depths they were fishing. But WDFW owes the sport fishing public an explanation of where their catch number data are coming from. When you ask WDFW theses kinds of questions their answer is always that this is the catch and just accept it.