The No. California salmon don't use the same migration patterns as our Puget Sound and Columbia River stocks. Plus, they believe in hatchery supplementation! To generalize, their salmon sort of out-migrate and hang around in their offshore waters rather than heading to Canada and BC. Their ocean conditions vary from our coast, usually, so that's why we sometimes have good years and they don't and vice versa. I've never fished there, but Brookings, Oregon has a beautiful harbor. I wonder if Brookings is experiencing the same good fishing? Also wonder if this is due to a good year for Sacramento salmon, and Klamath, or one or the other. Lucky California. They have better weather, too.