Just a couple of thoughts, first the last year the river was open we did very well. Makes you wonder if the numbers are down as much as thought? Two how the heck do they do the spawning surveys? The river is quite colored up during the spawn. I have heard they do steam surveys on the tribs and calculate it from that. Could be some one just doesn't want us on the River?

One story before I quit. The fish that smoked me worse than any other came from right in front of a big root wad, about yanked my rod out of my hand then peel off about 100ft of line, turned and went whipping back up river with the line ripping through the water leaving me with a ton of slack cranking as fast as possible. I tighted up just in time to have it race back down past me and right back to the root wad and bust me off. (all happened in about 30 seconds)I will never know how big it was but the memory of what it did to me is etched in my mind forever. I believe it would have been a personal best for me. I have caught several over 20lbs and nothing has ever come close to what this bad boy did to me. I sure hope, some day to be back on this river after the bigone that got away.