i'm thankful for having coho to chase this year(hopefully it'll be better than last year's terrible runs in the lower chehalis tribs), but what the hell ever happened to the chum runs? in the early '90s you could walk across their backs in the satsop, they went into sort of decline in the mid 90s and then came back for a couple years('02-03 i think). i fished the satsop last year in places that would normally be packed full of them and didn't see a single live chum, and only a handful of dead ones.

let's see them blame that one on the sportfishers...