With the very early Sept rain the tide water cleared of Chinook as they mostly Summers headed for the Satsop & upper Chehalis. Everything caught was very bright and not much holding. With the big rain recently everything moved up again and they are catching bright Coho above Rochester. With all being almost a month from spawning they are not going all the way to the spawning creeks ( most anyway ) so the tribs & upper Chehalis should have fish to catch now in far greater numbers than usual.

That is the good news but the next two weeks are peak Coho timing and for a runsize they are predicting something does not compute. Those who know a area real well are getting fish but the average guy not so much. Lots of Jacks but those are next years adults and add to it a huge number of 3 to 5 lb Coho, many below 20 inches, it just does not compute. We used to clear the pond of over a 1000 fish and would come up with two or three of those guys.

For me in the tide water I have seen numbers of Chinook, lots of Jacks both species, modest numbers of Coho and they are SMALLER than normal and many into the strange 3 to 5 lb guys. I have trouble buying that smolt at 18 fish per pound at out migration are six months later coming back at that weight. That is a strange thing.