Having worked as a volunteer for many years this, volunteers are hit and miss. 10 say they will show up, seven show up and maybe 4 can do the work. Some do work out such as Bingham where students have helped surplus for many years. Springs volunteers another example.

For whatever the reason the late 80s and 90s where WDFW really worked with volunteers but the agency the has reversed direction. Now even back then the volunteers had good volunteer coordinators but the harvest managers did about everything under the moon to make volunteers life difficult. The strong relationships were with the hatchery division and varied greatly by region / watersheds.