I know, I'm a day late and a dollar short when I bring this up 3 months after the fact.

But...

Why did we have no harvest of GH kings in 2003 when it was the strongest king run most locals have experienced in decades? I met lots of old-timers at the 28th Street Launch that were "fist-shaking-mad" about sorting thru upwards of a dozen kings a day to harvest perhaps one or two coho (sometimes none) in the first three to four weeks of the season.

NOT A KEEPER


I asked a WDFW creel census guy in Hoquiam and was told that for several years wild escapement in the upper Chehalis has not been met. In the same breath he said that there's so few wild fish in the run, most of them are hatchery right now.

Say what? HMMM.....

If there's that much hatchery production of kings, they ought to find a way to make sure the surplus (beyond what is needed for broodstock) is made available for harvest!

Why can't we get the hatchery king smolts in this system marked? That would open up some consistent harvest opportunity in the bay and the rivers for the average Joe who doesn't own a big ocean-going boat.