NEN,
Thanks for your reply, the Cedar is fascinating. It's good to chat with folks like yourself who know the system.

I heard that the AUC estimate for 2001 chinook in the Cedar is 825 fish, from a guy at WDFW. He explained the AUC technique, but I didn't understand it very well. I asked him about the smolts in the river, and he said the Issaquah smolts "feel their way around the Lake", to find the outlet, and there weren't very many of them.

What percentage of the chinook that you guys have seen in the Cedar are clipped or CWT's? Where do you think the other clipped fish came from? Does the UW still release fish at their hatchery?

And, what do you know about kokanee or "native" sockeye? I've heard from a number of people that there is a "native" population of kokanee/sockeye in the system, and that they were here prior to the introduction of Baker Lake fish---is that true?