One must remember that the weather skipped October & went right to November, which is a bit of a bummer. Coho looked about like last year after harvest but steadily came through did not stop, poor biters ( lock jaw mostly ) and staged up mostly the flats below the Satsop and above Fuller a ways. It was on time and moved normally but is simply a small run. With the rain the normal Oct staging fish shot up in fact Bingham has fish and they have not watered up yet. As these fish are 3 to 4 weeks from spawning they will be hanging out a bit.

Chinook were nothing like predicted but came right through like the Coho and hard to get unless you were in the right place with the right thing. The last rain as the river browned up everything moved and for two days I was out you had more Chinook than Coho in the river. So we will get to fish on what is going by now and not the front part of the run staging. It makes a huge difference.

One thing. This idea WDF&W can change seasons on simple catch reports from Recs is simply a really big reach. If they do that someone will sue them in a minute. It takes hard data and only hard data as yours, my, or anyone's opinion is just that a opinion. In fact the QIN & state have in most years a clause that says they will not change the preseason forecast. Now WDF&W can shut down our fisheries minus QIN consent but again data or to court and the state will loose. As to expanding that will be a cold day in hell the QIN agree to that and the key is they have to agree to change the preseason forecast. Nothing so far indicates that the Coho return is smaller than the QIN preseason Coho numbers ( QIN had a smaller prediction than the state ) or larger than the states number which was a few thousand larger.

With the bay and tidal fisheries blown apart odds are that the lost opportunity ( and resulting moralities ) will help toward escapement for both Chinook & Coho which we should make judging by what has went through tidal water so far.