Since the early 90's before I moved out to Forks in 99 I spent a good amount of time in the Union Dewato and Tahuya rivers. Caught a few winter and summer fish here and there never too many but a few. Were very strong runs of silvers and the chums were thick every year.

I live out here now and see these rivers every day. A couple of years ago I noticed that the salmon runs just up and stopped comming, no silvers and almost no chums. One year they are thick like every year and the next they are almost completely gone. I see the Hood Canal salmon people from time to time and I talk to them. Last year there was an outright colapse in the coho and fall chum runs they have no idea why.