TKS ... The Lake has been stocked for over 20 years now. I believe fry plants were as high as 17 million smolts in the early days, but was cut back to 6 million in recent years.

In a few years this part of the discussion will be moot as several groups filed legal action to stop the stocking as it takes place on a Federal Wildlife Refuge.

Yes, we need to keep the red run in check, but we also need to manage things properly. We saw maximum net time in place when we were only getting an escapement of roughly 1500 reds a day into the Kasilof. But, when we get to the major push of fish, the nets were left on the beaches and now the red numbers are too high in river. So, even weithout a big push of reds, we'll see increased netting schedules to harvest a much smaller number of reds and of course, kings. Simply poor management.

The terminal fishery at the mouth is unprecendented ... so there are certainly other unprecendented options we can look at for other ways to help remove this excess without impacting the kings. The sport limit was just finally raised to 6 fish yesterday, the first time I recall seeing that. But I've seen other streams that have too many reds go to 12, such as the Coghill. You could certainly also open dipnetting in the lake at the creek mouths as that's where those fish are in about 24 hours after hitting the river. Personal use limits could be bumped as well.

Talked to a few locals that went down to the mouth to watch it, a description of circus might be selling it short