We had a decent wild run in December and early January this year compared to years past but now it dosent look so good.

After the last high water we had at the end of last month we should have gotten our first big push of nates but they didnt show up. Knowone has been doing very well on any of the Quileute system rivers a couple fish here and there. Which is not good for this time of year.

My cousin and I fished hard all week putting in about 35 hours, hooking only 5 wild steelhead. Two of which were on the Hoh. Three of those fish only came out of the Quileute System where we spent 75% of our time.

The first day we fised the Quileute System we fished the Bogachiel from the 101 Bridge all the way up to Indian creek Thats about 8 miles of river and we fished it hard being the only ones on that stretch of river. We had no bites saw no fish or reds. Something wasnt right it is the wrong time of year for that river to be empty. It had been cold and the conditions were low and clear but i have never fished that river in Feb with those conditions and covered that much water finding no fish. Well we wrote that one Off thing that they must have been there but wernt biteing due to the conditions. In the Back of our mind we knew there were no fish but we didnt want to admit it.

The Next day we did the Sol Duc form Riverside to the Hatchery. Thats about 15 mile of river and we did it from the boat. It was at about 7 boards and at that lever you can see everything in the water. Keep in mind its mid Febuary and there should have decent numbers of fish in the river and should be stacked in the stretch we did. We were all alone agian and had the river to ourselves. In the entire float we hooked two fish and saw one more. As well we saw three or four reds. Thats is not right in most of the float you could see the bottom everywhere we checked out every hole after we fished it for non biters and they wernt there. We didnt spook and fish out of tailouts when we floated over or when we ran plugs the river was almost empty.

Granted the conditions wernt good but even in bad conditions we should have seen atleat 15 or 20 fish in that float hooking 5 on a bad day being the only boat on the river.

The problem is this: its mid Feb and the fish havent showed yet, sure there have been some big fish caught but knowone has had glory days on the system. Its gettin too late and If they dont start showing in big number after the next rain the writeing is on the wall.