About a week ago, I posted an informal poll soliciting responses on your favorite fishery in the Pacific Northwest. Thanks to everyone who posted. There are some great responses!

I tallied the results by counting the number of times someone mentioned their favorite fishery. I took some editorial liberties in interpreting the various responses. As best as I could determine, here are the results:

Total number of respondants - 43

Summer steelhead - 20
Coho (fresh and saltwater) - 17
Winter steelhead - 16
Fall Chinook - 13
Coastal cutthroat - 7
Spring Chinook - 6
Sturgeon - 4
Halibut - 4
Chum - 2
Tuna - 2
One vote each - shad, sockeye, pinks, carp.

The most popular - summer steelhead with coho and winter steelhead a close second and third.

The best response - Big Bob. He targets my kind of fish, big and dumb.

Who voted for carp? - Parker. In jest I assume.

New fishery (for me) that I need to try this year - coastal cutthroats (are they in the Kalama?) and tuna (I assume that means Pacific albacore).

Thanks to all who posted! I had fun and learned a few things.



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MSB

Parker had to have been the Carp vote.!!!!!!!

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rip some lips

Yes, there are sea-run cutts in the Kalama. Many of the SW Washington cutt populations are not doing so well however. The extreme upper range of sea-run cutthroat in the Columbia used to be the Klickitat, but they're extinct now.