I fished Monday through Thursday. 22 kings and not a single clipped. Although most of these cookie cutters have got to be unclipped hatchery fish. Mine ranged from 10 to 28 pounds with most around the 15 pound range. On a sad note....I was forced to watch one bleeding like a pig 15 pound king sink to the bottom belly up. What a waste. I still very much disagree with the direction of this fishery. I highly doubt you will be able to ever keep an unclipped fish again at Sekiu. It's a transfer of wild fish to the commercials (which includes the tribes). Also, it seems to be a blatant bias towards small boat fishermen since you can keep the same fish at Neah Bay (shouldn't area 4 have already reached it's quota and been closed? Sekiu lasted 4 days last year). Also, with the pojected 3rd largest hatchery king return ever in the Columbia, 220,000, why isn't the ocean required to release non-clipped? Lastly, people are saying "won't this be great if they can get the percentage of clipped to non-clipped up? Is that really the direction we want to go? To have a large percentage of the fish in the salt be hatchery? Something really stinks here and it ain't the fish in my boat.
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"You learn more from losing than you do from winning." Lou Pinella