Attended the virtual town hall last night, and came away feeling much better about fishing this winter than I’d planned.

The Department’s willingness to expand fishing from a boat opportunity in order to get more creel data was a big surprise, although I think that’ll be to be more of a multi-year study, across different river conditions and weather patterns.

Looking forward to hearing about these talks with the co-managers on Chehalis opportunities as well. In any other year, I couldn’t imagine the tribes turning their noses up at a chance to get after late Coho under the guise of Steelhead fishing. This year is obviously different. Still, I have a bit of optimism regarding steelhead fishing the early season closer to home.