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#963581 - 08/30/16 12:24 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 10/28/09
Posts: 3314
I always found it odd that WDFW reacts to a likelihood that a sport quota won't be reached by lifting restrictions. Might the reason we haven't caught all our fish be that some of the fish expected aren't coming? Nah. We just need to let the wild ones know its okay to start biting now.

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#963628 - 08/31/16 09:47 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: AP a.k.a. Kaiser D]
Old Kelpie Offline
Fry

Registered: 06/25/15
Posts: 28
Loc: Lower Columbia
Originally Posted By: AP a.k.a. Kaiser D
So you are saying that the estimated numbers were wrong?!

rofl
Estimates are never wrong just off. LOL

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#963693 - 09/01/16 08:23 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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Fry

Registered: 06/25/15
Posts: 28
Loc: Lower Columbia
Well I guest this is not the last week for the B-10 fishery. Seem so few fish were caught compared to what they modeled (guessed or expected) that the season will remain open until September 14th. The pressure down here has dropped off quite a bit, not as many boats out here mid week. The coho are now showing in better numbers, and we are picking a few of those up.

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#963694 - 09/01/16 08:27 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 03/08/99
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I didn't look myself, but heard that Chinook passage through Bonneville is 3rd highest on record for calendar date. If true, there are a lot of fish. At times we couldn't mark any, but marked plenty at other times, but couldn't get them to bite. Made me wonder if water conditions or something was causing lockjaw. Every time I thought it was "just me," I talked with guides and experienced anglers who were also having a tough time getting bites.

And just to rub salt in the wound, we lost our biggest king to a sea lion. It was a tough trip.

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#963697 - 09/01/16 09:15 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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The Tide changed

Registered: 08/31/00
Posts: 7232
Loc: Everett
Headed back down for three days starting tomorrow. I've heard mostly good reports from those down there. This trip I'm bringing my GF's two boys down who warmwater fish but haven't done B10 before, or much salmon for that matter. Good luck out there.
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#963698 - 09/01/16 10:02 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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Registered: 12/30/08
Posts: 585
Loc: around
See ya out there

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#963702 - 09/01/16 11:03 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
Sky-Guy Offline
The Tide changed

Registered: 08/31/00
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Loc: Everett
Where ya staying Derrick?
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#963704 - 09/01/16 11:20 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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GOOD LUCK

Registered: 08/09/00
Posts: 12107
Loc: Hobart,Wa U.S.A
Last year labor day weekend we crushed the URB's...........most were #22-30....problem was we couldn't harvest any of them.....just dinky #4-5 ho's. This year looks to be good.........was down there from the 19th thru the 28th............started out slooooow but picked up to be good fishin last half of the trip...........Thanks god for a few daze in the ocean.....The ho's were nice with most being around #12. Largest king went #35. Good luck,

SZ

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#963710 - 09/01/16 12:14 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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The Chosen One

Registered: 02/09/00
Posts: 14486
Loc: Tuleville
B10 seemed to be back on par last weekend. Periods of intense bites in various/specific parts of the river depending on which tide. Looks like most of the tules have passed and some nice URB's are getting harvested along with some good sized coho.

Every year the fish and "hot bite" areas seem to move. Find and fish those areas rather than the "we did great here last season" mentality.

I can only image it will be pretty good again this weekend.

I think a lot of us got spoiled on big numbers of earlier arriving fish in the past few years. I get the feel that the fishery is moving back to a more normal state.
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#963712 - 09/01/16 01:45 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
deerlick Offline
Spawner

Registered: 12/30/08
Posts: 585
Loc: around
nasselle launch at deep river

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#963714 - 09/01/16 03:16 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Salmo g.]
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Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7410
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
I've always wondered about the "lockjaw" thing.

For the believers in natural selection, what survives to spawn? Fish that aren't caught. While a net is reasonably random, a hook isn't. The fish has to "choose" to bite. In most systems where we rely on hatchery fish, what we spawn is a teeny fraction of the whole run. Is it possible that decades of high harvest rates, where essentially only those that don't bite and/or are too small for the net have created fish that are harder to catch?

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#963716 - 09/01/16 03:30 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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Shooting Instructor for hire

Registered: 10/26/10
Posts: 7260
Loc: Snohomish, WA
There exists a very exclusive & secret 24/7 "afterhours" tackle shop and Sky-Guy just happens to know where it is. Plus Bantam and about 10 other ________. No cash. Payment is always in fresh fish & game, so he and the warm-water boys better do well @ B10 this weekend or into the hole he goes... grin

Glad fishin' is semi-pickin' up down there. Local rivers closed; no B10 or tuna this year for me...I'm in huntin' mode now...
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#963745 - 09/02/16 09:40 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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GOOD LUCK

Registered: 08/09/00
Posts: 12107
Loc: Hobart,Wa U.S.A
I'll switch to huntin mode after my tuna trip tomorrow...................Lol. good luck,

SZ

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#963750 - 09/02/16 10:36 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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Registered: 11/24/03
Posts: 12766
After my 5 day spree in the estuary/ocean, I'm officially in the 10% club!

My 2016 Buoy 10 season is officially 10% of what it was in 2014.
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#963763 - 09/03/16 06:54 AM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7410
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
While it was (almost) a joke, I had an update for the South Sound coho based on sport catch by our boss. Each coho he caught in the Straits was worth 250,000 coho in the run. Kinda ballparky, but it was close.

For the spreadsheet inclined you might track you catch versus some of the runs .

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#963827 - 09/05/16 08:12 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
Sky-Guy Offline
The Tide changed

Registered: 08/31/00
Posts: 7232
Loc: Everett
Fished Friday-saturday-sunday and did pretty good. 4 nice coho and several released fish Friday, Pointed into the incoming on@Bouy 10 Saturday afternoon and it was pretty slow for most boats. I hooked and *almost** landed a really nice chinook in the deep water behind the bouy, then ran upriver to above the bridge Washington side @ high tide for a really nice URB and a big coho. Sunday We scratched while Derrick and crew killed em all around us on his driveway bait...we ended up with a mid teener chinook and a nice coho to round out the trip.
Weather was about the best I've ever seen it down there. Got the boys into some great fish, fun times camping, hiking, and running around on the beach @ long beach.



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#963830 - 09/05/16 09:12 PM Re: B-10 off to slow start [Re: Old Kelpie]
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Spawner

Registered: 12/30/08
Posts: 585
Loc: around
Yup last week's herring were incredible, this weekend. Best 3 days in a row of weather I've seen there., no crowds excellent fishing for us. Good to see ya out there rylee wish they would have bit for you guys as well too. Limited early enough today to beat traffic and clean a summers worth of gunk off the boat and vacuum seal a cooler full of fish. Now it's time to chase fur balls

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