Sure know how to make a nice sunny Sept day turn to crap eh Todd;) I and many others lived on those rivers for nearly two months this year in anticipation of a great run. As I hung my head walking off the river in late April, a very clear realization appeared that this was probably the last time we get to step foot in those waters for spring steelhead, Skykomish of the North it will become.

Based on the last 4 years there is no way to justify the opening of that system in March/April. I am sick of phantom run projections designed to create numbers that are above escapement and have fishable numbers built in for sporties and tribes and then listen to the classic excuse of "ocean conditions" when the reality of the run size turns to crap.

Off to the coast with thousands of my other N Sound brothers I suppose, or maybe go live on the banks of the Situk so I can actually see what a run of 10,000 wild steelhead looks like...