I was definitely thinking in terms of the kings, we watched several large pods of silvers skitter through the riffles in the evening between Nolan's and Cottonwood....it wasn't easy but they were doing it. Pretty impressive display of the urge to spawn really.....I scouted a spot below the dead end and found one hole full of bootish silvers.

What we didn't see beating it through the riffles were kings. Sad really that in a year where the King runs were supposed to be better than average the fish have to suffer through environmental hardships the likes of which haven't been seen on the Hoh in seventy-five years.

Let's hope the long range forecasts aren't based on computer models...seems there is always two days of rain forecast at the end of every week.

I talked with an upriver old timer this weekend who said they'd never seen it like this...