Plunk ... Without the sport havest last season on the Hoh, the river probably would have made escapement or been close.

Also note in 1998 that without the C&R restrictions that went into place for the entire river, that with a normal sport and tribal harvest, we would have missed again.

Ineteresting to note too that the only years since 1991 that the river has made escapement (97 could be an exception, I don't remember the exact implementation date) was AFTER over 1/2 of the fishable water was made a selective fishery.

Odds are we're going to have more harvest here this season than projected too given the drier spring ... the river was only projected to make escapement by 40 fish, so there's a good chance it'll miss again.

All this with an escapement goal that was LOWERED in 1988 by about 500 fish.

Sounds to me like we're on the bubble here ... take as much as we can until it becomes like all the other streams that faced similar troubles in their last productive years. Let's take some action before we add another to the list