I guess considering all the talk this year about how bad things were I didn't do too bad. I personally managed to tag 26 or 27 hatchery brats and I know that I turned a couple downers loose and I hooked at least 10 or more brats that LDR'd. So I guess that I hooked around 40 brats my self. I know that we put 57 or 58 in my sled for the season in 24 days on the water.

I don't know what my problem was with wild fish this year. I had no problem hooking them just couldn't keep um pinned. I hooked 27 or 28 wild fish and I think I only landed 13 or 14 or them. My search for Ike fell short this year but only because he broke me off right at the beach. That about pissed me off. I think the highlight of my season was a weekend my buddy Scott and I hooked 22 fish on the hoh in 2 days in Feb. The early season for us on the Skagit started off really good and then it just fizzled towards that end. I guess the good news is that the plunkers down low were starting to do really good the last week that it was open so there are some fish on the way to spawn.

Overall I would have to rate it at a B-. There were definatly a few fish around if you fished the right rivers and looked in the right places.

Tim