All makes sense. Just trying to be optimistic. I've been fishing these rivers long enough to predict the salmon migration patterns on occasion, but yeah, you never really know when they're gonna be where until they show up. I have observed that in years where we start getting some amount of rain (and the cooler temps that come with it) in late August/early September, there are usually coho staging in the lower tribs by mid-September, but to your point, we have a ways to go (with a hotter than normal forecast and bone low rivers) before we can start thinking that's going to happen.

There's a saying about hoping in one hand and doing something else in the other, but I'm hoping anyway.