Yo Gang!

A couple of things that I learned at the Pre-season Forecast Meeting in Olympia on Monday...

1 - The $120K that have been tossed about for monitoring would be enough to cover a 30 day season if it came to that...!

2 - They are only expecting about 400 wild chinook to come back to the Cedar this year. That is a threatened run and DFW has to manage all fisheries - including sockeye in the lake - to limit impact on those fish.

3 - Based upon #2, DFW would prefer to run the season as early as possible - before chinook would be expected in the lake - they said it might start as early as July 1st

4 - The City of Renton has asked that they NOT allow fishing on July 4th because of planned fireworks and even more traffic at Coulon Park - don't know if they mean the whole weekend or not.

Get those red hooks now!