I do not know much, am fairly ignorant, BUT, I've got an older (63) friend who owns several permits here, but mostly fishes Alaska. The last couple years he fished those permits a bit due to the high price of chums. This year it started out at .85 cents per pound, now it is .90 cents. The previous two years they caught tons of fish, this year they have been greatly dissapointed in the north areas of the sound, but happy with the canal and south sound. Last week, in three sets they caught( by their words) over 300 in the first set, next two sets les than 20, with one steelhead and a few coho, the coho were wild, extremely dissapointed they were They did pretty good in the canal, and said a couple gill netters did good in the Everett area, but overall a down year. I can tell you usually we see them jumping all over from early Oct. through now in front of the island, hardly any this year, seems to be an ocean problem, or they are late, ignorant I am, but not stupid enough to know there are just way less fish right now than there should be, maybe they are all in the Quilayute.