Salmo - I could not agree more. The Grays Harbor streams are managed for wild fish escapement. The trick has always been to maximize harvest rate on hatchery returns while, often, minimizing the harvest rate on wild returns. In Grays Harbor there is some timing separation between the bulk of the hatchery coho (earlier) and the bulk of the wild coho (later). There are exceptions of course. Everyone knows about the late timed Satsop hatchery coho.

But my point is, despite the period of intensive net fisheries that seem to upset so many people, the surplus of hatchery coho had to swim by a lot of sport fishermen to get to the hatchery. Thus, the opportunity was there, regardless of the harvest conducted by the treaty and non-treaty gillnet fisheries.
I felt this point needed to be made because one user group will typically looks to the other user group as the reason the "catching" part of their fishery did not go so well when, in fact, there is often no relationship at all.

Strike Zone - It may seem aggressive. But I say again... those hatchery coho had to go past all the fisheries to become surplus at Humptulips Hatchery, Lake Aberdeen Hatchery, Satsop Springs and Bingham Creek Hatchery.

Steely Slammer - see above.

Stlhd Dreaming - All terminal area fisheries are part of the annual pre-season fishery management planning effort conducted by the co-managers. There is a series of public meetings that WDFW structures for anglers such as yourself to voice their views as part of that process.