Ramon, there's a pretty large scale hatchery program for Pinks at Hoodsport. Their return mirrors the native return pretty well - when the ocean is good the return is good. These are also a bit unique, as they started with a very early returning Dungeness stock, and like all hatcheries everywhere, have been gradually moving the average date of return earlier due to selection of early returning fish - you never really know for sure what the ultimate run will be so the temptation is just too great to let most of the early returners into the brood ponds on the chance that the rest of the run won't show up and you will get caught short of brood stock. This is not normally a good thing if the goal is to replicate something that formerly existed, but this is a totally artificial situation in a part of Hood Canal that never had pinks anyway. What this has done is create a unique terminal fishery for pinks in July, wildly popular, and I'm pretty sure it's one of those things that doesn't hurt any other species or stocks. I mention all of this as an example of a WDFW hatchery practice that maybe isn't bad.
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The fishing was GREAT! The catching could have used some improvement however........