You ever check out the Grays river? It's very similar. Logged to death all through the headwaters and slides every year. Heck if we get 3/4's of an inch of rain it goes to 1-2 feet of visibility and sometimes blows out color wise at regular flows.... Fact is, that river still meets escapement. Why? Doesn't have the steady fishing pressure of the rest of the readily available, easy accessable SW WA streams.... Beat the fish to death and you wipe them out.... SO don't preach to me about the habitat factor, its smoke up my ass... Although it has some merit, it's very little.

I won't be suprised when the seasons get shorter on rivers like the EF of the Lewis, Washougal, etc.... They get HAMMMERED..... The only thing that will save them is to cut the hatchery plants to next to nothing if nothing at all. At least that keeps the meat hunters at home.... But sadly enough, you cut the meat hunters you typically cut the gear boys out... For some screwball reason the bug chuckers try and take the river over..... Explain that?

Keith