#973080 - 02/11/17 02:49 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 06/03/06
Posts: 1533
Loc: Tacoma
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Quickly I can add in the summer runs on the Green rivers (king and Cowlitz county, winter runs on the Puyallup, Nisqually chum, Tahuya coho, Burley creek and many others small streams, the Sol Duc brood stock program, the upper river summer runs in the Kalama, Sturgeon, even smelting . This is not to mention the reduced plants, restricted runs, current restrictions on Coho and many other opportunities lots. If I thought about it, I am sure I could post a bunch more. In the last year they even greatly reduced harvest ( from 12 months to about 2 months) on multiple beaches I clammed on. We could toss in the Skokomish kings and wild steelhead retention if wanted to, even though those restrictions have more merit, they still are opportunities lost.
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#973081 - 02/11/17 03:22 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Dah Rivah Stinkah Pink Mastah
Registered: 08/23/06
Posts: 6868
Loc: zipper
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Lots of bank access on coastal rivers thanks to idiots leaving garbage.
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#973082 - 02/11/17 04:43 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Fry
Registered: 02/25/11
Posts: 31
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Confidence! I have lost confidence. Lack of fish and opportunities have really zapped my desire.
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#973087 - 02/11/17 07:21 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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River Nutrients
Registered: 04/25/00
Posts: 5077
Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...
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Smelt
Miss the ability to go and do "the dip".....another fishery way over fished!!!!
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#973092 - 02/11/17 09:08 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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My Waders are Moist
Registered: 11/20/08
Posts: 3440
Loc: PNW
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Lots of bank access on coastal rivers thanks to idiots leaving garbage. This has happened everywhere, it is my biggest annoyance when I see guys dumping garbage and parking in dumb ways obstuctingting roads or even railroads (not shitting you I saw a truck tailgate hanging over a track that gets a train or two a day). It's a testament to how the Internet age hands the keys to the Kingdome to some people with no respect for it and act entitled to it.
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#973093 - 02/11/17 09:11 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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My Waders are Moist
Registered: 11/20/08
Posts: 3440
Loc: PNW
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The only one I don't see here that I miss is the Samish. A really fun small river with mega trout.
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#973097 - 02/12/17 08:06 AM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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~B-F-D~
Registered: 03/27/09
Posts: 2256
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With the current discussion about lost opportunity I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of fisheries we have lost in the last 10 years...Here are some of my favorites that we have lost:
Snoqualmie Hatchery Summer Run Snoqualmie Wild Winter Run Skykomish Wild winter Run Tolt - All Steelhead Skagit - Hatchery /Wild Winter Steelhead Cowlitz - December Winter Hatchery Steelhead Elliot Bay Chinook
Same here, those are the main ones lost for me. Used to fish Bear Creek and the Sammamish River too back in the day. Those are gone with Hershel and just plain development. The others were affected but not as much by those things. Just plain sucks!
Edited by cobble cruiser (02/12/17 08:09 AM)
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#973098 - 02/12/17 08:29 AM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 10/26/12
Posts: 1075
Loc: Graham, WA
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Don't forget Nisqually steel and now even the lowly but always fun Mr. Chum.
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#973099 - 02/12/17 08:52 AM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
Posts: 1383
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So I have much less motivation now. I've taken up other hobbies. But I sure do miss those early mornings of first water, a headshake, and a chrome missile exploding on the surface. [/quote]
Same here. Strange how that works. I havn't got my drift boat wet in 5 years. I'm amazed it happened in my lifetime.
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#973101 - 02/12/17 10:40 AM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Returning Adult
Registered: 01/21/00
Posts: 270
Loc: Bellingham,WA
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From eleven months of fishing a year now down to around four with marginal fishing for only two of those months. And here's the one's I no longer do:
Upper South Fork Nooksack-Summer fishing Nooksack C & R Steelhead Skagit C & R Steelhead Skagit Summer Chinook C & R Skagit Coho- they only seem to leave crumbs for me now, or close it early. Sauk C & R Steelhead Upper Cascade River C & R Summer Coho Fraser River- Early and Spring Chinook and very limited now Sockeye Fisheries
I use to pour a lot of money and time into this hobby, not so much any more.
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#973103 - 02/12/17 10:53 AM
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Lord of the Chums
Registered: 03/29/14
Posts: 6829
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Duckabush Steelhead
Dosewallips Steelhead
Hamma Hamma Steelhead
everything in the upper Puyallup systems
screw it, im going fishing for browns... see ya
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#973104 - 02/12/17 10:57 AM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 1844
Loc: Wenatchee, WA
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Don't forget the Upper Columbia and her tribs this year....pretty quiet around these parts. Miss the ability to fish the upper Wenatchee below the lake through Tumwater Canyon.
All the "S" rivers as mentioned above and real winter crabbing...
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#973105 - 02/12/17 11:30 AM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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ReefSkunk
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Duckabush Steelhead
Dosewallips Steelhead
Hamma Hamma Steelhead
everything in the upper Puyallup systems
screw it, im going fishing for browns... see ya Don't forget all the Job opportunities you've lost.
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#973107 - 02/12/17 01:12 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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Carcass
Registered: 01/09/14
Posts: 2312
Loc: Sky River(WA) Clearwater(Id)
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Same as you folks, winter and summer steelhead on the "S" rivers, diminished opportunities for salmon along with the lack of access. I moved to the eastside about 10 yrs ago and glad that I did. Many old timers told me that the writing was on the wall and it would all be over in the not too distant future......they were right! I wouldn't have traded the experiences growing up on the Sky for nothing. Sad part was, watching the steelhead empire burn to the ground. Better to have experienced it than not at all. I'm not 110% saying it's all over with over there, however it is all over as far as the way we remember it and the way that it was. There may be seasons in the future but they will be on quota systems and limited entry, and/or very crowded.
I have caught more salmon and steelhead in one month on the Big C, than I'd have caught in 10 yrs on the S rivers, but there remains a deep feeling of something missing everytime March rolls around and the cottonwoods start to blossum, or missing the long walk back to the truck after a day of summer steelhead in the canyon.....
Ah, yes and Tumwater Canyon
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#973116 - 02/12/17 05:55 PM
Re: What opportunity have you lost?
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RICH G
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Maybe you should take up being a "conspiracy theorist" , Gnome or Bigfoot hunting are all respectable and suitable hobbies as a substitution. Gnomesayin?
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