The last few years the Nisqually was open for chums, it seemed like the run timing sort of shifted earlier. We'd start seeing good numbers of fish in November but then everything would peter out in December, usually following up with a closure. I'd heard that explained away as the seiners up north pounding on the run, which I don't have a lot of proof of (sort of like "well, they're just late this year").

Used to look forward to Christmas break every year when I was growing up to fish down there, not a ton of people and lots of fish. It was a much different place in the '90s for sure.