Correct and incorrect at the same time. Chum and Chinook are seldom both into harvestable numbers but sometimes. Coho management has ups and downs but has remained harvestable so it boils down to who and where the harvest takes place.

TU fought for years to get the SM to PG opened and maintained for QUALITY mom & pop fishery. Since Pav & TP passed away and TU became irrelevant in the Chehalis the agency has steadily moved any true quality in the sports fisheries to certain areas, the bay and Satsop being primary. Seasons are available to be sure but the quality of the early fall Chehalis fishery is in the dumpster not because of lack of fish but the allocation of the non tribal share of the harvest. If you have the resources ( money ), skills, and time you will do OK. When you design a fishery, as was done this year, it was clear from the beginning that success would be limited until Nov and the netting pressure was reduced which pushes the primary areas of success to the Satsop and above depending on the weather.

It is simple math really.

Missed your post SG but did not mean it as a slam but once the paper allocation for harvest is set it is about who kills what where. You grit your teeth, set your conservation principles aside, and go to the wall for every fish of the non tribal for the sports. Stinks really but if you do not you get what you see and this should not be allowed to happen again.