There are plenty of fish up higher, I think they tend to blow through the Puyallup, then go into more of a holding pattern up on the Carbon. I think what I enjoy most is float fishing eggs in some of the deep slow water. Caught two this morning 5# and 7#. The guy next to me was tossing lead and corkies and snagging fish. Both my fish were caught in the mouth. Learn to fish with a float and you can fish all the hard to reach spots next to root wads ect... Because we are approaching the end of the run you have to be willing to throw back some darkies until you get a chromer, but they are in there.