Okay, let's see......The North of Falcon Process allocates a said # of returning kings to be harvested in the straits and coastal waters, etc., but there are no sport fisheries in the straits or ocean waters until sometime in July, right? Soooooo....when do you think the majority of the hatchery kings come back to the Sky and then into the Wallace hatchery? I'd have to say that in the past the hatchery gets it's big push of kings in June and early July. So why not open the damn thing for the month of June when there are not many wild kings in the river or open the Wallace itself? Sure it would be a zoo and a redneck snagfest, but at least we'd get a sportfishery, eh? I just can't understand the WDFW's reasoning behind this, can you?

The fish that Parker and I saw in the Wallace hatchery last week were chrome kings from about 10 to 15 pounds with slim bodies like that of spring chinook. All of them, that we were able to see (approx. 100) were clipped.