The weather forecast seems to be trending toward less and less rain over the next 10 days, so water levels are going to stay about the same for a while. No reason to expect anything to change much soon, but who knows?

It's been a weird year in the rivers. I'm just bank fishing, but my experience seems on par with what DrifterWA said; more hatchery adults than jacks in early September, then a whole lot fewer after the mid-month rain/temp. drop moved the fish that were staging in the tidewater straight to the hatcheries and gravel. Since the opener, I have only harvested 3 fish in about 10 trips. I've had two or three bites each oiting, but several lost fish and a few colored up ones that went back.

I will say the fish I have harvested have been of good size and quality (all unclipped bucks between 8 and 10 pounds). The fish definitely had plenty to eat this year in the ocean.

Something odd I've seen and been hearing about is that a lot of fish are being caught with the weird "tapioca" stuff this season. Seems like the ratio of affected fish to fish with the gross pustules in the flesh has been about average, but there are a LOT of fish around that have at least the "pox" under the scales. I'd be interested to know why that has been so prevalent this year.

Something else weird is that a bunch of chum have already entered the tribs. It's only a little early, but it seems like those things always make their push after the first big rain, which we obviously haven't had.

Curious why the bay and net fisheries have been slow... that might be a bad sign of things (not?) to come. We'll see....