The good old days?

Is anyone posting here over 90 years old? Since 19-fricking 38 the Columbia is rockin' NOW in terms of historical numbers! If you were ten in '38, you're now 82 . You have not seen a better ten year average on the Columbia in your lifetime.

I have plunked in shacks with wood stoves on the Columbia in the 1960's, 70's, and 80's. The shacks I used were eliminated for various reasons in the 90's and have not returned. However, the best plunking I ever had on the Columbia for steelhead was this past summer. For spring chinook it was 2001.

Prior to dams and non-native peoples runs were better, of course. Somehow, I doubt we'll ever get back to pre-Boldt, Pre-dams, Pre-nonnative settlement conditions.

Pugetropolis is a different story, as is the Olympic Peninsula. To fix those problems, a few million people need to move out (Pugetropolis), and federal law and treaties need to be rewritten (Peninsula and Pugetropolis).

The waterway over which governmental agencies have the most control, the Columbia basin, has seen HUGE improvement in recent years.