That's the news we had hoped to hear!!!

Excellent news for the fish, although they're certainly not home free as they're still having trouble getting up the rivers.

Silvers, by nature, are having less of a problem due to their size and the fact that they are trib spawners and don't mind the shallows as bad.

Kings are in bad shape, they are coming in extremely ripe right now and having lots of trouble getting up. Many are spawning within the Quillayute (some always do, but not a really high percentage). This is going to make these redds extremely succeptible to being scoured on the heels of fall rains that will inevitably show some day.

In 1987, the last and only year in the last 42 years that water was near this level ... local guides, anglers and OCC Inmates were brought out to dig channels for these fish. If things don;t change soon, we may have to take similar action.

I may call the state Monday to see what the thoughts are about trucking some fish upstream ... we have a tanker truck available that is used for the Snider Creek broodstock program. We'll see if it gets another use!

A big thanks and a round of applause to all those who helped either directly or indirectly!