Slug ... There is no management plan (no escapement data, no goals, no run timing data, etc.) in place for second-run Kasilof kings, so I'm not sure what info in the other thread leads you to belive that there is.

This is a very lightly fished fishery with only a handful of people on the river most days. A typical sport harvest on a day might be perhaps 25 fish. On the other hand, the reported catch in the nets (I'm not even going to touch on non-report issues that are fairly well-known on netted kings) often pushes 750-1000 fish daily.

That's a pretty big disparity in the harvest balance.

Sports anglers predominant harvesters? On the Kenai, yes, on the Kasilof, not even close.

Sports anglers for years have been asking for the state to learn about these fish ... they're basically a "mythical" fish that many think don't even exist.

How can you say there is no negative impact from a fishery that takes those sorts of numbers out of a fishery with an unknown run size? You might be able to say you're not sure, but no one can say "No" until we get some more data.

While AK management generally does a better job overall, not even WA state allows a fishery like this to occur.

Could you imagine the uproar if a commerical group planted 6,000,000 sockeye smolts into a smaller river in Washington and then netted roughly 5 days a week to catch these fish without any regard for the impact on the summer kings or summer steelhead run in that river?

There's lots here that I'm afraid you don't quite understand about the situation that perhaps you need to learn a little more about to get a better grasp of what's happening.

One of the biggest questions here is why we've continued stocking this river with 6,000,000 smolts if overescapement of reds is an issue. Especially when the impact of this fishery on the other species is unknown.

PS fNp ... too low of res on my movie mode on the digicam to really show much along the banks. Just blips more than actually being able to see the fish, sorry!