Baselined by the 2003 run, we'll have no season (est. 310,000 run)
Baselined by the 2002 run, we get 80,000 fish to harvest (est. 510,000 run)
Basedlined by the 2001 run, we'll have no season (est. 290,000 run)
Basedlined by the 2000 run, we'll have no season (est. 280,000 run)

The average of the previous years' baselines indicate a 350,000 run.

I think it is bizarre that WDFW would say "State and tribal salmon co-managers Friday afternoon agreed that the Lake Washington sockeye salmon return is large enough to allow for limited fisheries this summer" followed by "As the counts stand today, recreational anglers would have a very brief fishery of perhaps just one day."

Huh??? That would require an incredible degree of precision in measuring the run, not only counting fish going over the locks, but knowing how many fish WILL go over the locks in the future. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, and I'm not politically savvy, but this really smacks of manipulation and backroom deal-making. Did you get the bit about a "very limited" tribal fishery on Sunday? The only way you could legitimize something like that would be to "decide" that the run will be big enough to allow harvest. Yet, it is clearly too early to know whether the run will be 280,000 (2000 baseline) or 510,000 (2002 baseline).

I dunno about you, but if they indeed have a 1-day sport season, I won't be within 20 miles of the Lake that day. It will be the Mother of all Goat-Ropes.