Here is my issue with CR spring Chinook fishery, admittedly a fishery I know very little about and have never participated in.....this is a fishery where they have the ability to know exactly how many fish are going over Bonneville. Instead of "forecasting" the run size, letting people pound them below Bonneville for X number of days, then saying Uh Oh, there's not enough fish we better shut it down, why not wait until enough fish have passed over the dam and THEN open it up....above the dam, below the dam, or both?

I've always felt the only fishery this state runs correctly (besides put and take lowland lake trout) is the Lake WA sockeye fishery. If enough fish don't enter the lake, the fishery is not opened. How hard is that? Due to the fact that they can count all the fish, don't they have that same ability on the Columbia?

Ike