I am starting to get the impression all the experts on computer websites are seriously mental about salmon science and so negative that they wish to spread their dismal outlook on everyone. My post said get rid of the netters. Help the CCA help us, I read the posts/ argument a few weeks ago telling about ESA impacts and allocations if alternative harvest and I GET IT. Read it. The 2001 run of springers was 440 Thousand fish, a year of good ocean conditions. Like now, look at the summer steelhead and coho fishing on the columbia. Good ocean conditions in 01' and dams weren't being mandated to spill for the smolts. Now we have spill and a productive ocean. AWSOME! Those are the key factors! We will see a big run, the predictions I have heard are not state made, they were told to me by people who know far more about the columbia than state predictions. I don't trust state predictions any more than you all do. I know who the state serves and it aint sporties. I was there in 2001 and saw how it fished. Even doughballs were limiting out daily. Where were you naysayers then? Did u just learn how to fish? Been at this fishin biz since I was a little boy, and my opinion is with the jack counts and all the mini salmon I caught and seen caught below bonneville last year, we WILL see more springers than ever before. Stay home and bitch about bad fishing and do nothing why don't Ya?