CFM: Jeesh, I'm not sure I like being one of the old timers, but I guess that's an accurate assessment. I have some catch statistics form the 60's that I will try to dig out, but based strictly on memory, I would agree that before Boldt many rivers saw peak runs in December and January. My belief is that we have wiped out those fish perhaps intentionally, by focusing our hatchery efforts on early returning fish and by encouraging heavy netting on the early returning hatchery fish, which in turn put tremendous pressure on the wild fish component of the run.

Short answer. Yes, runs did peak or at least come on strong in Dec. and Jan.