Hey Fishaddict,

I’m curious where you got your information. The allocation for sportsman and Indians were about 1,200 a piece when it was legal to fish for Steelhead. I find it a little hard to believe the Indians got caught with an additional 1,200 fish. There was always a problem with a few Indians that fished out side of the season but I would guess they caught another three or four hundred fish total for the out of season fishery. The last couple of years it was open the fishing really sucked, there just wasn’t any fish around for sportsman or Indians.

Another very little known fact about the Nisqually was before the dam went in there was a Spring Chinook Run. I found this out talking to the biologist that was in charge of the Nisqually. The Springers would go up in to the canyon water where the dam is now located. Once they put the dam in the deep swirly water that the Springers liked and needed was gone and so went the fish. One more screw up that the white man can take credit for.