Here's a couple of pics I shot a week ago on the Quilcene. Chum population is incredible and carcasses are piled everywhere. I drove down to the river again today to see if the rain had washed the mess up, but there wasn't enough rain, so there are a weeks worth of more carcasses and the fish are still coming. It is truly astonishing. I'm sure many of you are familiar with the Quil and know that the entire spawning area is confined to just a couple miles. It is fished extremely heavy for silvers, and every kind of mistreatment imaginable is brought to bear on these chum, yet they thrive. There are so many that the spawn of one pair is uprooted by the following pair. These fish are ESA protected. Why? This is not a one year phenomenon, it has gone on for a few years now, so when is enough, enough?
I'm sure you get my point.


edits....good grief, it took me four tries to get the photos right