200,000 humpies is not alot of humpies for a river the size of the Snohomish. I may be alot of fish compared to the runs of the recent past but I bet if they kept track of the run 75 years ago it would be more like 2,000,000.

I fished the American river on the Kodiak roadsystem about three weeks ago. The American is about the size of the Lyre. It isnt even a humpie year there and the humpies were stacked like firewood. I fished about a mile above the salt and we walked all the way down. You couldnt even see the river bottom all the way to the mouth the fish were so thick, and when we got to the mouth it was solid humpies a half mile into the Ocean.

We fly fished with pink egg paterns and I stopped count at around 100 humpies between the two of us I bet we hooked 500 in about 3 hours. As soon as you bug hit the water it was humpie on.

It wasnt even a humpie year and I bet there were over 100,000 humpies in just the lower mile of river and mouth. You would have to see it to believe it but it is the truth.

I wonder what the Snohomish and skagit looked like 75 years ago? I bet you could walk across the humpies. 200,000 is just a small portion of what the run once was im sure. But we will never know the truth.