You can't just pick a year that fits your agenda and run with it. As a counter-example, there are 18k fewer fish so far than 2001, and there was no season in 2001. 4-year average shows 66k fish counted through June 24, and a total run of 318k fish. Some folks have pointed out that this year's run was spawned in 2000, but if you use 2000 counts as your benchmark, you will come up with a total run size of just 193k fish.

I want a season as much as everybody else (already got the extended family hyped up), but realistically the numbers to date don't bode well.