Originally Posted By: R W B
When I trailered the boat at Westport Sunday the 12th around 2 PM the fish buyer had his truck severely listing to the side! The Gillnetter that was on the launch slip had about 40 Chinook all chrome bright and very long! Your basic Hump fish! He had no Coho in the hold. The first 4 fish placed on the buyers scale totaled 118 pounds and they were NOT the biggest of the bunch. They didn't want to talk at all!!
There were 3 other Gillnetters trailered up already - hence the buyers truck list!
The one thing to note was that Fisheries was no where to be seen but I'm sure they were all properly reported!!


For the record, these were non-treaty kings harvested commercially out of 2-C (Hump Estuary) on the first white opener.

A total of at least 563 chinook were taken in the two 24 hr NON-treaty gillnet periods for 2-C.

At least 578 coho were taken during the same openers.

There were negative 1227 NON-treaty wild Hump coho available for harvest.

There were 736 NON-treaty wild chinook available for harvest.

Interesting that the only harvestable stock was chinook and the season was prosecuted with 6" mesh.

Tell me again.... what was the target stock? huh

Wish I could have hung around for that portion of the "do-or-die" meeting in Oly.
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