This was in my email.

Hi Heather

Sorry to bother on a Monday morning but Fuller Hill boat launch needs your immediate help to correct a problem. What I thought was a job well done, when someone cleaned the mud/sand off the launch was not such a good job.

I don’t ever launch there but the bottom part of both ramps never got cleaned completely. This has caused problems with 2 wheel drive vehicles getting stuck and when trying to get “un stuck” caused big ruts. In a few cases other rigs have had to pull them up the ramp, until they could go on their own.

Its not a good way to start a fishing day, both for the stuck person BUT also for others that are trying to launch their boats…..

It needs to get done….right now that launch is used about 15 hours a day, out of towners, guides, and local people just can’t believe the job never got done correctly, in the 1st place. Shame on me for not doing a follow up to see if the job was done RIGHT……grrrrrrr

John’s River, 28th Street, Hoquiam River, small launch just above 101 bridge, Cosie, Monty launch and of course Fuller Hill are used LOTS, I understand that they aren’t all WDFW launches but WDFW is the lead agency and needs to take the lead in making sure who ever should be taking care of the ramps are getting the job done. October 1 the Wynoochee and Satsop will be getting lots of use…..are they ready????? I know for certain White Bridge, is a full 2 year from having anything done.

Money, money, money but people need to have safe launches.



Oh forgot about Friend’s Launch

Well, they did get more from license fees and it is the fee-payers who want to use the launches.

Some conversations on fish and best I can do for you all is there are fish moving. Not a lot and the QIN didn't do all that great from what I found out. Thing is QIN numbers are reported to WDFW the next week after a set and I was told WDFW will not make them public due to goverment to goverment concerns. The QIN is not required to make catch numbers public so they don't. Why? I have no idea but again tribal managers are not required to do so and thier responsibilities are to tribal fishers not non treaty folks.

The QIN should have caught arounr 547 Chinook and 2836 Coho in the two day set in the first of the week. Could be wrong but from what I and others could see that did not happen. In fact my bet is they were way short. Hopefully I am wrong but I doubt it.

Took a look around yesterday afternoon. Fished all afternoon for one bite from a psycho coho that ran me into a side channel and broke me off like it thought it was a big king or something. Fun to get absolutely smoked once in a while.

Water is still very low, and it looks like rain is done for a while. Fish numbers seemed about the same as angler numbers most places I went, which is to say there were a lot of people fishing, but there wasn't much catching from the banks. If the Tribe's numbers aren't good, I think we should prepare for some of the flavor of in-season adjustment we don't like. Hopefully, if that happens, it comes in the form of reduced limits (not closures).

They're not going to in season manage anything on the first 2 day set. A LOT of fish have already went past the lower river.

I do believe your right. One bunch of fish went up with that early rain and a steady trickle since then. No way tribe pulls unless we get to the last week of Oct. with the same pattern. Coho concern maybe but Chinook in my view its nearing red flag time but again not until week 4 could anything change.

Just 2 days? Shoot, they barely got any benefit from the rain if they pulled on Tuesday. You're probably right; that shouldn't affect anything.

For sure, a decent number of fish must have moved in, because even I managed to wrangle a few in late September. I guess I always worry when I hear about poor tribal fishing; seems like the Tribe takes every opportunity to shut down our fisheries lately, so I like to hear they are catching fish better than that they are struggling.

I saw a LOT of chinook in varying condition at a likely spot on a lower tributary yesterday (even more than usual). I wasn't entirely thrilled, since I was hunting fresh coho, but at least there (anecdotally), the numbers look pretty good to me. Haven't spent enough time on the other Chinook-producing tribs to make any assessment. Hope that outlook improves.