Based on past experience I don't see anyway to have a Sept 1 opener and protect Chinook. I am open to ideas but when this has been done in the past it simply has not worked.

Understand I loved the days when there was no opener or it opened in May. But I think those days are gone....openers draw crowds of inexperienced fisherman, inexperienced fisherman don't know the river, don't understand where the Kings are primarily in comparison to where the silvers are and therefore Kings are caught. I don't like being negative but can we really risk the King mortality to catch a few jacks and silvers.

JimB