What a bunch of bull S**t. They get to net all weekend long since they missed a couple of days for the high water. Watched a local native pull in 2-300 fish last night per drift. These are all fish that are suppose to be getting bye. They say it is so they can get the forcasted 30,00 plus Coho returning to the salmon hatchery. Well where in the hell are they. Out of all those fish there was probably 10% that were hatchery fish. I am sorry but Mel Moon has got to go. You cant have an indian be the head Biologist for an indian tribe.
They dont open Lake Washington until there is 450,000 or so sockeyes for escapement. They say we only need 4000 Chinook for the whole Quillayute system. Sorry but the Quillatute could sustain over a million fish for spawning. I have lived here my whole life and can remember when you could literally walk across salmon up on the North Fork of the Calawah. Not any more! You are lucky to see a few hand fulls of them spawing. Just a little pissed off about all this lately. Just wish the damn state would figure it out. So Bill if you are reading this pull your head out of your ass and get a set of nuts and do something about it. Oh yeah I forgot you are retiring and probably dont care anymore.