#966243 - 10/17/16 04:41 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
[Re: MaxMad]
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I've had my best luck on brined herring while trolling but have had some success with spinners. Have not tried anchoring yet but if I get tired & sleepy I may just give it a try. I do take to the upper river when the lazy fishin down below subsides but with the new 18' windshield boat I'd hate to wrap it around a submerged stump or ground it on a gravel bar around Porter way... I sure do miss my 16' Willie Predator for this area. I caught a few jacks from the bank but my bank days are few & far between anymore. Truth be told my boat did way better in 2015 than this year, in the first 2 weeks of the season we killed 17 fish (mainly hatchery fish). It was like TPTB stretched gill nets across the river on Oct. 1st with no fish for a week then they closed it.
I learned a lot from an old local who was willing to teach me this fishery, I sure miss that ole coot!!!
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#966345 - 10/18/16 07:48 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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April Fool
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Unless for some reason the Chehalis got permission to net? I think I heard someone say they put nets in last week.
PERMISSION? YGTBFKM, right? They do as they please and effectively have ZERO communications with the state re seasons and/or catch. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, they do whatever the fuk they want when they want to do it. bastids.
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#966374 - 10/19/16 02:17 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
[Re: MaxMad]
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Went it drops I will of course give it another go. I take the dog down to fetch sticks all the time & rain or no about mid sept there's a king or 2 rolling in their same old spots, this year nada. We have had enough luck in the past right after October 1 on coho to convince ourselves to to take the poles down but even with the little rain we had before the last deluge, we saw nothing & had no bites for 2 + weeks of effort ... Hopefully the last gully washer forced the nets out & then we can see if there really are any fish.
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#966377 - 10/19/16 03:01 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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Dah Rivah Stinkah Pink Mastah
Registered: 08/23/06
Posts: 6868
Loc: zipper
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Tribal net schedule says they have been out since Sept 27?
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#966379 - 10/19/16 05:27 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
[Re: MaxMad]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 04/25/00
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NT gillnetters are scheduled to net 2C, well just finished 2 days 17 and 18 but go in again, 2C, on 10/30 and 10/31
Chehalis side, 2A and 2D...10/24, 10/25, and 10/26....7 a.m. - 7 p.m.
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#966383 - 10/19/16 05:43 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
[Re: MaxMad]
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
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Yep... they've essentially taken off the entire month of October to lay off the horrible coho forecast. They plan ONE 48 hr opening for the absolute peak of chum and that's it.
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#966403 - 10/20/16 08:16 AM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
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Morality aside, it's gonna be a damn GOOD escapement week for Grays Harbor tribs.
Make that TWO good escapement weeks This keeps up, the peak chum may get a free pass, too.
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#966404 - 10/20/16 08:21 AM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
[Re: MaxMad]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 04/25/00
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I see that WDFW has already posted the "netted numbers", from 2C, wow, that is a quick posting......
October 17 and 18th
17 Chinook, 15 Coho and 16 Chum
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#966409 - 10/20/16 10:00 AM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7435
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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That's a chum directed fishery???
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#966416 - 10/20/16 10:50 AM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 02/24/00
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no its a all you can catch ,,no matter what
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#966421 - 10/20/16 12:26 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
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That's a chum directed fishery??? Deploy chum-appropriate mesh at a time/location of predictable/peak chum passage = chum directed... regardless of what actually gets caught.
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#966435 - 10/20/16 03:30 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7435
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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No. A directed fishery is defined by what it takes. They intended to take chum but actually directed the fishery at Chinook and Coho, as they made up 2/3 of the catch.
Perhaps a test fishery was in order, given Coho and Chinook concerns. Chum fishing occurs when the species of concern have cleared.
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#966438 - 10/20/16 05:21 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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Dah Rivah Stinkah Pink Mastah
Registered: 08/23/06
Posts: 6868
Loc: zipper
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chum are similar size to coho and a good percentage of GH kings. It's more of the region 6/QIN kool aid that's worked it's way into our thinking after decades of [Bleeeeep!].
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#966441 - 10/20/16 06:27 PM
Re: Worst Chehalis ever
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/03/09
Posts: 4415
Loc: Somewhere on the planet,I hope
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The QIN seasons were modeled and conducted to go after Chinook and once we have week 40 posted up on the website ( no I do not know why it has not been put up ) we will know a bit more but it appears the Sept rain moved the summer Chinook resulting in the QIN fishing on the down side the summer's curve. The QIN fishermen in the first 3 weeks did poorly on Chinook but wk 39 really picked up which is the front of the fall Chinook run. They stayed out of prime Coho weeks as the NOR Coho were the restraining stock and chose to use their share of the Coho impacts to take Chum. The state NT Commercial will do the same.
The Springs & Bingham have between 8 & 10k normal timed Coho back which looks to be a bit higher than expected for this place in the run. Early yes but now that everything in the bay and tidal is up it appears to be the Coho return is above forecast but not massively for this point in the run. Now we wait fore the Nov part to see how close things are.
Edited by Rivrguy (10/20/16 06:28 PM)
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