It used to be that the nets went in for a wipeout fishery starting in mid sept with no netting before that.

In those days you could count on a solid month of great fishing from mid august to mid sept.

Now just about the time the bay accumulates a few fish they start netting (the week before aug 15th) all over the bay and it takes a solid two weeks for the fishing to get back to being decent. That leaves two weeks of decent fishing before the big rodeo sept 15th.

Somehow the bill of goods that two weeks of decent fishing is superior to a month of great fishing has been sold (I guess mainly by the two pole endorsement). Collectively we're clearly gullible idiots.

The coho fishing has been historically poor, but great the past two years. I can only imagine what the coho fishing would be like if we could fish during the peak of the run instead of a month before the peak. The coho last year weren't as plentiful as the year before, but the quality-- I have never seen the like.

On WB it aint the good ole days to be sure, despite some outlandish claims to the contrary.