I saw 4 filleted native steelhead at the mouth of the sultan early sunday morning as well. Unfortunately there is no good explanation for this one.

With the late winter nates as abundant or more so than the summer runs in early june, and the bulk of the summer runs not arriving until late june. Why do we have a june 1st opener on this fishery. If Kurt kraemer is really as concerned about these fish as he claims to be he would push the opener back to the 10th or 15th when snow melt has pushed most of these fish down river. If these fish are too depressed to handle a C&R fishery in March and April. Then how can they a bait fishery in early june.

I'm sure many of you will disagree, but honestly ask yourself why. Do you like making these fish available to the poachers? With the exception of the opener is the fishing really that good the 1st week and a half of june anyways on the sky?