Definitely a longer, selective season but there is a major question addressed in the original post that everyone is ignoring........the comment was made that the charters are seeing increased numbers of unmarked fish.

I'm not sure this is a random observation as as the catch sample within the charter industry is quite large......therefore somewhat indicative of what's swimming in the ocean.

Is WDFW not marking 100% of hatchery coho? They should be by now. (according to the target time frame I read about a few years ago) Or, is clipped hatchery fish mortality seeing a sudden jump that's not showing in the wild fish?

Personally, it does seem like we had to wade through a few more wild fish to get keepers on the ocean last summer(westport) but we also usually ended up with our keepers too so they are out there.......the question is in what numbers and why?