Well, not to throw cold water on you fisherpersons, but remember this is the year that Coho should be returning if they survived the Dec 07 flood. Is there any possibillity we will not be seeing many Coho show this year, especially from the upper river ??

At one of the ad hoc meetings this spring in Monte, I asked WDFW bios what reduction in the Coho returns that they forercast for this year. The answer was "we don't see any change over normal runs as those fish had already spawned before the flood." Let me tell you that the silt left in the streambeds, surely had the oportunity to smother many eggs that were not deeply buried. Even today upriver here at Chehalis when we get 1/2" of rain, the river gets muddy. This tells me that the silt is still there.

I hope that with all their wisdom that they are right & I am wrong. We will see.