the run this year was an absolute bust. usually the non biting rollers seem to show up at the end of july and by the 15th of august it's worth fishing. this year, there were no fish present in early august at all, and around what is normally the peak of the run(labor day) fishing was very slow at best.

i believe the tribe fished well into escapement 3 or 4 years ago, enough that they had to shut down netting mid season. i kind of wonder if overfishing that year had something to do with this?

it was bad enough that we only were able to fish 4 days a week this year, on what was predicted to be a very large return, but at least we can use barbs again(roll eyes). all in all a very frustrating season.