Typically its around 50/50 hatchery/wild. I don't think run size for the coho has much to do with the quality of the coho fishing. The rec fleet is typically done about a month before the peak of the coho run.

I think it has more to do with how early the coho show up. Historically speaking coho seemed later than they have been the past few years.

From 2000 to 2010 we averaged about 1-2 coho per season. 2010 to 2012 we averaged better than a coho per day on the water. Note that's about a 5 fold difference in catch rate. Didn't change the way we fish. Its just that we've had a few good years of early early coho. I'd like to think the past few years is a permanent coho trend but I doubt it.

WDFW abandoned doing angler checks on WB, so we have no hard data to support it, but from talking to people the coho catches have really improved, but chinook catches are way down. Overall catch rate of salmon might not have changed much. Several here ascribe that to brilliant management, but to say I am skeptical would be a mild way to put it.