#986399 - 03/05/18 11:24 AM
Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
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Yeah, we can have that kind of rally too, but only once the Skagit fishing season re-opens. Meanwhile, it will really, really help to rally the troops and phone and email NMFS Regional Administrator, Barry Thom and express your support for re-opening the Skagit now, not later. Barry is the guy who will sign the Record of Decision (ROD) that gives the approval to WDFW to open the season. Even though the deadline for public comment was Jan. 8, NMFS is hearing from the vocal opposition to the proposed Skagit steelhead season. If you want to fish, it can only help the cause if you express your support by ringing Barry's phone off the hook and flooding his email. If you want to extend your support of Occupy Skagit to the goal line, this is your chance to make a difference. Thanks.
Barry.Thom@noaa.gov
503-231-6266
If Barry's secretary who answers the phone and checks his email gets swamped and irritated, she will make sure Barry gets this done.
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#986401 - 03/05/18 11:36 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
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Email sent will call next. Who is the vocal opposition and what is their beef?
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#986406 - 03/05/18 02:50 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Email sent will call next. Who is the vocal opposition and what is their beef? W.F.C. Is my guess. They want the Skagit designated a wild steelhead gene bank.
Edited by Blktailhunter (03/05/18 02:52 PM)
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#986407 - 03/05/18 04:03 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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The Skagit being a wild steelhead gene bank or not wouldn't affect wild steelhead fishing...it just means no hatchery steelhead are planted.
What I'm guessing they want is flyfishing only, no fishing from a floating device, and blunt hooks required.
Fish on...
Todd
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#986408 - 03/05/18 04:45 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Carcass
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What I'm guessing they want is flyfishing only, no fishing from a floating device, and blunt hooks required.
Sounds good to me. Will there be a dress code that we have to adhere to also?
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#986417 - 03/05/18 07:42 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Returning Adult
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Loc: Lake Stevens
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email sent
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#986418 - 03/05/18 07:51 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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King of the Beach
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What I'm guessing they want is flyfishing only, no fishing from a floating device, and blunt hooks required.
Fish on...
Todd
Let’s hope not... Email sent. SF
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#986429 - 03/06/18 01:46 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
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The Skagit being a wild steelhead gene bank or not wouldn't affect wild steelhead fishing...it just means no hatchery steelhead are planted.
What I'm guessing they want is flyfishing only, no fishing from a floating device, and blunt hooks required.
Fish on...
Todd Seems that is the push from them. If that's the case, give them a river and make it fly only w/ said restrictions. Maybe then they would back off a little on the litigation threats. Heck I might even join them on that river and swing a little. I've been Jonesing to swing on my closed home water lately. The conditions are perfect now, and I know there's some beauties around.
Edited by RUNnGUN (03/06/18 01:54 PM)
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#986436 - 03/06/18 03:28 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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I think you guys are missing the mark. It ain't about fly vs gear.
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#986440 - 03/06/18 04:52 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I think you guys are missing the mark. It ain't about fly vs gear. I think posting up what it is about would be more helpful, if you know. Fish on... Todd
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#986442 - 03/06/18 06:49 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
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Loc: Stanwood WA
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I think you guys are missing the mark. It ain't about fly vs gear. I think posting up what it is about would be more helpful, if you know. Fish on... Todd Totally agree with this as I attended Occupy 1 & 2 in hopes of getting a wee bit of time back on a river I hold near and dear! Nothing but smoke and mirrors and getting a wee bit tired of being held hostage by what I consider a "radical" group! Go on their FB page and read a bit of what their ideas are and it truly is eye opening!
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#986443 - 03/06/18 06:50 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Fry
Registered: 09/28/11
Posts: 29
Loc: Snoho
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Phoned in a message to his recorder, and sent a email.
+1 on what Todd said, "Post up what it is about"
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#986448 - 03/06/18 08:39 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: RUNnGUN]
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Registered: 03/27/09
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Email sent will call next. Who is the vocal opposition and what is their beef? Who else? These guys are the PETA of sports fishing... or in any other kind in this case. Let me guess? You'll sue. All in the name of what? Money? Is that what it's about? Back when I was actually a follower of these guys and gave them money every year I tried to raise awareness of a business owner that re-routed a well used spawning creek in order to increase his property size and make it more usable. Well, the fish suffered and now it is a Barren waste where the creek bed used to be. Did they do anything about it? Hell no! They obviously had bigger fish to fry and it wasn't worth their time or money. Better to go after the hatcheries. That's where the money's at obviously. Or at least the agency that governs the hatcheries. Wild fish conservancy and..... https://nativefishsociety.org/news-media/to-open-or-not-to-open-the-skagit-steelhead-fishery
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#986451 - 03/06/18 09:52 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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Email sent will call next. Who is the vocal opposition and what is their beef? Who else? These guys are the PETA of sports fishing... or in any other kind in this case. Let me guess? You'll sue. All in the name of what? Money? Is that what it's about? Back when I was actually a follower of these guys and gave them money every year I tried to raise awareness of a business owner that re-routed a well used spawning creek in order to increase his property size and make it more usable. Well, the fish suffered and now it is a Barren waste where the creek bed used to be. Did they do anything about it? Hell no! They obviously had bigger fish to fry and it wasn't worth their time or money. Better to go after the hatcheries. That's where the money's at obviously. Or at least the agency that governs the hatcheries. Wild fish conservancy and..... https://nativefishsociety.org/news-media/to-open-or-not-to-open-the-skagit-steelhead-fishery PETA of sports fishing? An apt description! Sad and this "My Way Or The Highway Attitude" must go!
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#986454 - 03/07/18 04:47 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Todd]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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I think posting up what it is about would be more helpful, if you know.
Go to this website and read the article and then the paper below it by the WFC. https://nativefishsociety.org/news-media/to-open-or-not-to-open-the-skagit-steelhead-fisheryI would attach the file to this post but the forum software here has a size limitation that won't allow me to do so.
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#986455 - 03/07/18 06:47 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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One thing is for sure. If the Skagit in fact does open. If I or any of my buddies see any of those WFC, NFC, WSC or whatever they are, on the river, they gonna get a mouthful. Or, are they part of the wealthy think they are elite, been there done that crowd, that only travels the world to get there fishing fix on other peoples home water?
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#986458 - 03/07/18 08:20 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Spawner
Registered: 04/04/00
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WW, so it sounds like everyone here understands exactly what they want. A pie in the sky idea that will never work and will cost a number of people their jobs and destroy a multi million dollar industry so some fly casters can have the river to themselves to practice their casting.
I used to be a fly fisher and it was attitude that drove me away. You see it at just about every fly shop.
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#986459 - 03/07/18 09:00 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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ReefSkunk
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I left a voice mail voicing support for an immediate opening.
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#986462 - 03/07/18 09:31 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13523
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Whoa! Take a breath folks. Please.
This is not a fly v gear thing. Or a PETA thing. And Occupy Skagit is NOT a fly fishing only group. OS is a mixed group of anglers whose sole mission has been to re-open the Skagit system to the same wild steelhead season that we had from 1981 through 2009, that has been closed since the 2010 season.
OS has encouraged, maybe been a catalyst, and the state and tribal co-managers finally developed a Resource Management Plan (RMP) as required under ESA regulations. NMFS has been reviewing the Plan since Nov. 2016 and preparing the Preliminary Evaluation (PEPD) and Environmental Assessment (EA) and biological opinion (BO) since that time. The PEPD was open for public comment from Dec. 8, 2017 through Jan. 8, 2018.
Most of the comments were supportive, some were opposed, and some were supportive but with conditions. Certain of those commenters claimed to support a Skagit season, but want to wait for recover (without identifying what recovery is or even looks like), or want more resource data - to a degree never before done anywhere for any fishery in the world that I know of, and more detailed monitoring than what the Plan specifies, which would amount to far more monitoring than NMFS requires for any other fishing that occurs where ESA-listed fish are present. In short, these comments intend to require conditions that will never be met. That leads me to believe that those commenters do not really support having a season and would prefer that the river remain closed forever.
I began receiving information the other day that even though the comment period closed a couple months ago that NMFS was getting a lot of last minute input in opposition to the Skagit season. That is why I asked interested anglers who support the season to contact Barry, just in case he has any lingering doubts.
In candor, is the RMP perfect? Of course it isn't. Perfect is not one of the choices on the menu. Those who insist on perfect, like some of the opponents, will never get a season. Nonetheless, make no mistake, the Skagit has been the most conservatively managed steelhead fishery in the entire state. Skagit steelhead are not endangered nor threatened. The Skagit River is a victim of geography. If the Skagit were north of the 49th parallel and in B.C., it would be the healthiest steelhead population in southern B.C. It can support the traditional CNR recreational fishery and the incidental and directed take by the treaty tribes. The Plan is designed to continue the conservative management of Skagit steelhead.
This is not a gear type issue. It's not a treaty v non-treaty issue. The issue I've asked you to weigh in on is between middle of the road reasonable people like you and me, and the radical, I want it may way or no way of certain dot org commenters. Besides, we already know that in a perfect world the regulations would just be designed to keep Todd and his pink worms off the rivers (jk).
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#986468 - 03/07/18 11:51 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Thanks, WW, I had seen that one.
There is a letter there that is signed by several groups opposing the opening.
RUNnGUN,
Be strong with your opinions on the WFC or NFC on the opener...but do know that the WSC has come out with full support of the fishery, as they should, the closures of the CnR fisheries in Puget Sound in 2000 was the reason for the creation of the Wild Steelhead Coalition.
I think that over the years they have frequently ended up being exactly the same as the NFS or WFC, but on this one they seem to have remembered that they were formed by anglers who were trying to strike a balance between making fish museum pieces and being able to fish for them...and I am very gratified to see it.
Fish on...
Todd
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#986472 - 03/07/18 12:27 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Here is the Native Fish Society's letter in opposition to the opening: https://nativefishsociety.org/news-media/to-open-or-not-to-open-the-skagit-steelhead-fisheryIt is signed by: Native Fish Society Wild Fish Conservancy Pacific Biodiversity Institute Conservation Angler Here is the Wild Steelhead Coalition's letter in support of the opening: http://wildsteelheadcoalition.org/2018/01/skagit-basin-steelhead-management-public-meetings/The WSC is, however, advocating for no fishing out of boats, and I do not agree with that position. Couching that position in terms of reducing impacts by reducing access to fish is not a particularly bad idea, but it smacks of rather serious hypocrisy to not advocate for banning motor boats in this fishery altogether. It seems that the increased access to fish only is a problem when it is gear anglers fishing out of boats...it apparently is not a problem with fly anglers who scoot up and down the river all day in jet sleds to access more and more river bars to swing off of. It's good for the goose, but not for the gander, is how it looks. Fish on... Todd
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#986477 - 03/07/18 04:22 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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Here is the Native Fish Society's letter in opposition to the opening: https://nativefishsociety.org/news-media/to-open-or-not-to-open-the-skagit-steelhead-fisheryIt is signed by: Native Fish Society Wild Fish Conservancy Pacific Biodiversity Institute Conservation Angler Here is the Wild Steelhead Coalition's letter in support of the opening: http://wildsteelheadcoalition.org/2018/01/skagit-basin-steelhead-management-public-meetings/The WSC is, however, advocating for no fishing out of boats, and I do not agree with that position. Couching that position in terms of reducing impacts by reducing access to fish is not a particularly bad idea, but it smacks of rather serious hypocrisy to not advocate for banning motor boats in this fishery altogether. It seems that the increased access to fish only is a problem when it is gear anglers fishing out of boats...it apparently is not a problem with fly anglers who scoot up and down the river all day in jet sleds to access more and more river bars to swing off of. It's good for the goose, but not for the gander, is how it looks. Fish on... Todd Point noted. Struggling with the fishing out of a boat/jet boat issue. On one hand it's a shame to limit opportunities for all. On the other I can see how it could offer some safe zones for fish. I could work with either one, however IMO bombing around on the Sauk in a sled is a tough one to swallow. Thanks for sharing WSC letter. What is the difference between WFC and NFC. Both titles are included in their letter.
Edited by RUNnGUN (03/07/18 04:23 PM)
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#986479 - 03/07/18 05:47 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
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Boat fishing regulations are a little bit tricky. Under the standard "Special Gear Regulations" one cannot fish from a motor boat. On the Skagit mainstem that was modified so that one cannot fish from a motor boat with the motor running. This was a waiver created because boon-dogging was the most popular method for drift fishing with conventional steelhead gear, where the old Skagit scows were controlled by an oarsman with a set of "sweeps" (oars) as the boat drifted down through a piece of water. Nowadays with jet sleds equipped with a main jet powered motor, a gas kicker, and an electric, they might be SOL if they don't have a set of oars to use while drifting and fishing, but you cannot use a motor while fishing under Special Gear Regulations.
As for the Sauk, anglers are (or were) allowed to fish from drift boats or rafts, but not a boat equipped with a motor. WDFW cannot regulate navigation, so some folks have run jet boats (me included) up the Sauk and then got out and bank fished. A caveman however, would sit on a log, or maybe a dugout canoe, and fish from that . . .
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#986480 - 03/07/18 05:48 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Main stem, sleds and DBs -ok. Open tributaries of the Skagit, if any - no sleds, and DBs or rafts for transport only.
So easy a cave person could satisfy... See nothing wrong with that. Back in the day it was open to sleds but not under power, only paddling.
Edited by cobble cruiser (03/07/18 05:50 PM)
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#986481 - 03/07/18 06:03 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
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If that’s what they decide I don’t want any Spey guys bitching and moaning about a bunch of spoon and drift guys ruining “their” bar.
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#986485 - 03/07/18 06:24 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Boat fishing regulations are a little bit tricky. Under the standard "Special Gear Regulations" one cannot fish from a motor boat. On the Skagit mainstem that was modified so that one cannot fish from a motor boat with the motor running. This was a waiver created because boon-dogging was the most popular method for drift fishing with conventional steelhead gear, where the old Skagit scows were controlled by an oarsman with a set of "sweeps" (oars) as the boat drifted down through a piece of water. Nowadays with jet sleds equipped with a main jet powered motor, a gas kicker, and an electric, they might be SOL if they don't have a set of oars to use while drifting and fishing, but you cannot use a motor while fishing under Special Gear Regulations.
As for the Sauk, anglers are (or were) allowed to fish from drift boats or rafts, but not a boat equipped with a motor. WDFW cannot regulate navigation, so some folks have run jet boats (me included) up the Sauk and then got out and bank fished. A caveman however, would sit on a log, or maybe a dugout canoe, and fish from that . . . I remember many years ago seeing John farrar's Boat flying up and down the lower Sauk. Speaking of the main stem, I intentionally built my 17 foot jet boat with oars so I could have the flexibility.
Edited by cobble cruiser (03/07/18 06:35 PM)
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#986493 - 03/08/18 06:21 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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WFC, NFC, WSC or whatever they are, If you don't know what they are, how will you know 'em when you see 'em?
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#986494 - 03/08/18 06:49 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7428
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The kicker for WDFW is that they can manage time, place, and manner. They can't prohibit you from being in a boat on a body of water. They can prohibit "fishing from" or "hunting from" a boat. Not even sure if they can flat out ban motorized boats from a waterbody.
The actual use of the waterways is, I believe, a county or city responsibility.
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#986495 - 03/08/18 07:11 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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WFC, NFC, WSC or whatever they are, If you don't know what they are, how will you know 'em when you see 'em? I know what they look like. As far as sleds legal to run around on the Sauk, even for transportation? I can see a mess a comin. Can regulate them off by limiting horsepower. Would like to see a 24 footer trying to run up on a 9.9.
Edited by RUNnGUN (03/08/18 07:19 AM)
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#986496 - 03/08/18 07:41 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
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Regulating horsepower is up to the County. Talk to them about it.
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#986497 - 03/08/18 08:01 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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The Sauk and Skagit are "Wild and Scenic Rivers", which I believe prohibits motor boats...but the Skagit has an exemption from that requirement.
The Sauk does not.
I think that's the current situation.
Fish on...
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#986501 - 03/08/18 09:51 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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#986502 - 03/08/18 11:43 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Fry
Registered: 02/01/14
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In my view, WFC's letter looks like it is designed to set up (or at least make it look to NMFS like WFC is setting up), a legal challenge under NEPA. That's why, among other things, the letter repeatedly asserts that the proposed fishery is "controversial." (The degree a proposed action is controversial in terms of environmental impacts is one factor NMFS must consider in determining whether an EIS is required.)
If NMFS were to conclude, based on its EA, that an EIS is required, we can kiss goodbye not only this season, but likely next year's season as well, because preparation of an EIS normally takes well over one year (especially for an agency as bogged down in NEPA and ESA paperwork as NMFS).
The good news is that NMFS can respond to the concerns raised in WFC's letter in its EA (or elsewhere in the administrative record) and thereby create a more favorable record should a legal challenge be brought. That may be one reason for NMFS's delay in issuing the go-ahead (just my speculation).
Although I moved about 6 years ago down to Oregon, I still dream of returning to fish the Sauk and Skagit at least a few more times before father time catches up to me. Those rivers and their steelhead are simply magnificent. A sincere thanks to all who have volunteered their blood, sweat and tears to the effort to re-open the Skagit and Sauk. Here's my email.
Mr. Thom – The Skagit River steelhead harvest management plan is duly conservative; DOJ has good lawyers to defend your EA; call the Wild Fish Conservancy’s bluff; open the Skagit!
Best regards,
Brian McLachlan
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#986506 - 03/08/18 11:53 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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The Tide changed
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Emails sent to Both Mr Thom and Susan Bishop.
The sand is slipping through the hourglass on a season, time to sh!t and get off the pot!
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#986508 - 03/08/18 12:09 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I agree that the important part is getting it open, and I also agree that gear conflicts are very minimal...but confining us all to the small amount of decent fishing bars on the Skagit and Sauk will certainly increase the conflicts.
I was just noting that it's not surprising that attempting to limit fishing from boats negatively affects all but one type of fishing gear...and that the purported reason for it...decreasing access to the fish so they can have a better chance at avoiding the fishery...is hypocritically addressed only by stopping one type of fisher, but not the other (who uses sleds to access lots of water they'd have one shot at if they confined themselves to drift boats and rafts).
Fish on...
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#986528 - 03/08/18 07:13 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Returning Adult
Registered: 02/02/05
Posts: 337
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Backtrollin brings up a great point. As I witnessed a group of 4 bank fisherman last weekend wading right through a well known spawning flat. Thankfully it is probably a little early, but nonetheless. I cringed watching them shuffle, stumble and hop through the flat.
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#986531 - 03/09/18 07:13 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Registered: 12/06/07
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This conversation isn't going as I'd hoped.
I've been fishing the Skagit and Sauk Rivers since 1972. It has been rare for me to experience any conflict between gear types or boat and bank fishing methods. There have been a few times while I was fly fishing from the bank and boon-doggers in a boat floated and fished through the water I was fishing, but overall it has been really uncommon. So in my opinion all the ranting about fly and conventional gear conflict and boat and bank fishing conflict is being way over blown.
The conflict that has me concerned, and I hope it concerns you as well, is between those who want the river to remain closed to steelhead fishing and those of us who want the season to open. That is why I started this thread, and I thank all of you who have called or emailed to express your support for the Skagit season.
Sg I agree. We/I, could be overreacting to such a great opportunity. But I am sorry to say this is not 1972, or even pre 2000 berfore things really started to change. I know how you feel because I have been fortunate enough to have steelheaded back then. Things are different now. I fear aggressiveness to obtain an edge for success is at it's peak now more than ever, with little respect for the fish, people, or traditional historical river etiquette. Etiquette, that presently scarcely exists. Etiquette that I learned, not to low hole either on the bank or in a boat, to start atop of a run and keep moving working a stretch. To work behind someone that got there first, or pass and move on. Part of the reason I hardly winter fish any more. I think you can thank the crowds and guides for that. The pressure to produce for paying customers has fd up the experience for others. That's why it has come to a debate on what regulations still might produce the 1972 or pre 2000 river fishing experience. That's why BC has a "Class" river system. Maybe a system that would work for the Skagit? Christ, now I'm probably starting to sound like a WFC guy. I hope not and am not. I hope none of the negatives in this discussion comes fruition, and if I/we get to participate, I will do my part to make the best happen. Thanks to you and everyone else that has got us this far.
Edited by RUNnGUN (03/09/18 07:19 AM)
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#986532 - 03/09/18 07:21 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7428
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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R&G hits a really sore nail square on the head. Population has grown. Even if the number of anglers or hunters hasn't changed, the amount of available land and access has. There are significantly less places open to fish or hunt.
40 years ago you could have joined what were the hordes at the Cowlitz, or gone many other streams and run into nobody else. The complaint from the Coast as Pugetopolis closes everything so we pile out there. Was the Skok "that bad" in the 70s or 80s or did it get that was as the only game in town?
Available area to recreate is declining. The most likely solution will be either WDFW finding some way to limit access, behavior will improve, or folks will go elsewhere.
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#986549 - 03/09/18 01:18 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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With only a few weeks remaining until the end of April, how about we try the 2018 season. If the feared "parade of horribles" does occur, then we ask WDFW to make the necessary social engineering modifications, whatever that might be. Salmo you know I kind of had a feeling if the foot dragging went on long enough they could put it off till next year. On a lighter note where might the long awaited announcement come from? Will it be like a Papal vote with white or black smoke from a chimney?
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#986552 - 03/09/18 02:23 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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The Tide changed
Registered: 08/31/00
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Loc: Everett
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WDFW has budget & staff for a 6 week season already hired, but since we arent fishing, they are on to other tasks burning creel money we should be fishing with. Word is that once NOAA approves, we could be fishing in hours. E-communications are drafted and await the send button. It's more likely that once it is approved we would have 48 hours until we can start.
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#986627 - 03/12/18 04:27 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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The Tide changed
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Loc: Everett
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I've just heard that NOAA approval will take at least one more week. Sand is slipping through the hourglass on a decent season, this sucks.
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#986693 - 03/14/18 04:47 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: BroodBuster]
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Registered: 03/22/06
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If that’s what they decide I don’t want any Spey guys bitching and moaning about a bunch of spoon and drift guys ruining “their” bar. Get 15 buddies together and turn that WFC fly flicking bar into a pallet burning, beer drinking, Plunking bar. Fuk the WFC!
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#986694 - 03/14/18 05:15 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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If that’s what they decide I don’t want any Spey guys bitching and moaning about a bunch of spoon and drift guys ruining “their” bar. Get 15 buddies together and turn that WFC fly flicking bar into a pallet burning, beer drinking, Plunking bar. Fuk the WFC! Is there a sign up sheet? Should we make it a potluck? Would some loud rock and a stripper or three be in bad taste?
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#986878 - 03/16/18 09:55 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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March 17th approaches tonight....Tick....Tock.... Sand is slipping through the hourglass of this "season" and yes it definitely sucks... SMH tonight!
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#986881 - 03/17/18 07:07 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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Well, whats the latest? With my Columbia Springer gear just about ready, and the prime timing coming close, I am almost ready to abandon this opener and go for some 5 star, blue ribbon, creme de la creme, prime Spring Chinook for the table. Other buddies prepping for EW trout. Someone should be held accountable for this delay. Can anything be done? I think some civil disobedience is in order.
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#986884 - 03/17/18 12:28 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7428
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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The season being half over but nobody being able to fish would be important if anybody at NOAA actually fished steelhead. The fishery is nothing more than numbers on paper.
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#986950 - 03/20/18 09:32 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Registered: 01/21/00
Posts: 270
Loc: Bellingham,WA
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I made the call this morning to Barry Thom, NMFS Regional Administrator but only was able to talk to his secretary. No news yet but she made it sound like she's not getting that many phone calls from sportsman. She did give me another NMFS administrator's phone number who is suppose to also have a hand in getting the Skagit open. I didn't get his last name but his first name is Peter and his work number is 206-526-6734. I'd say if we want the Skagit open this season, WE better start bugging them a whole bunch more!
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#986977 - 03/20/18 05:15 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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The Tide changed
Registered: 08/31/00
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I just heard the Skagit will open next Thursday, 5 days a week Wednesday through Sunday through the end of April. Only new rules is no fishing from a motorized craft in the Sauk. Go time.
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#986981 - 03/20/18 06:18 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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Perfect. Just in time for my Columbia Springer week off up to it's closing. Bassturds! Wonder if they planned it to reduce competition? They probably read this board! Well, it worked on me. I'm goin for table fare. It will be a week into before I endeavor. Oh well, I'll take leftovers when I return. If it is true, thanks SG and to all that made it happen! Maybe a trend will be set for an earlier season and more rivers in the future. Good luck to all and tread lightly!
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#986991 - 03/21/18 07:11 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Sky-Guy]
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I just heard the Skagit will open next Thursday, 5 days a week Wednesday through Sunday through the end of April. Only new rules is no fishing from a motorized craft in the Sauk. Go time. I assume this actually means "no motorized craft on the Sauk", since no fishing from a motorized craft is what the rule always has been? I hope it means that...as this actually addresses my concern posted above Fish on... Todd
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#986992 - 03/21/18 07:12 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Sky-Guy]
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I just heard the Skagit will open next Thursday, 5 days a week Wednesday through Sunday through the end of April. Anyone got any good tips for this fishery? Fish on... Todd
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#986993 - 03/21/18 07:15 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Todd]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 10/28/09
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I just heard the Skagit will open next Thursday, 5 days a week Wednesday through Sunday through the end of April. Anyone got any good tips for this fishery? Fish on... Todd LOL. Yeah. Get there early (or really late).
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#986994 - 03/21/18 07:52 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Todd]
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The Tide changed
Registered: 08/31/00
Posts: 7232
Loc: Everett
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I just heard the Skagit will open next Thursday, 5 days a week Wednesday through Sunday through the end of April. Anyone got any good tips for this fishery? Fish on... Todd I'll ask my friend Chuggy, he always has some good tips, no matter what.
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#986995 - 03/21/18 08:02 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I have a feeling that I will be seeing Chuggy up there! Haven't seen him in a while, either.
Fish on...
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#986998 - 03/21/18 09:32 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/25/01
Posts: 2844
Loc: Marysville
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Todd - The best advice I can give you if want to catch a fish is too head to the coast!!
Curt
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#987001 - 03/21/18 09:50 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Smalma]
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Todd - The best advice I can give you if want to catch a fish is too head to the coast!!
Curt Lol...noted Fish on... Todd
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#987002 - 03/21/18 09:54 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Smalma]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 10/28/09
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Todd - The best advice I can give you if want to catch a fish is too head to the coast!!
Curt Nice try, Curt, but everyone knows the Skagit's the place to be!
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#987004 - 03/21/18 10:01 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 03/30/02
Posts: 1409
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Hope this gets done this time, next Thursday will be fun
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#987006 - 03/21/18 10:25 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Returning Adult
Registered: 02/02/05
Posts: 337
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Yep, Gonna be a great time. I don't care how many people are on the river.
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#987008 - 03/21/18 11:36 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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When can we expect an official announcement? Through the grapevine is great but the grapevine also said this fishery was going to open weeks ago.
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#987049 - 03/22/18 10:14 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Some good points there. I too thought it strange that the season would be open in that later time frame when historically it hasn’t been open then.
As more and more rumors are spread of an imminent opener it seems more and more likely that it’s not going to open this year. For the sake of my friends that enjoy this fishery I hope that’s not the case.
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#987050 - 03/22/18 10:48 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/25/01
Posts: 2844
Loc: Marysville
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Backtrollin - Not speaking for Salmo g. it is my understanding that the Skagit/Sauk CnR seasons beginning in the early 1980s ran through April. The north Sound rivers (Skagit and Nooksack) have some of the latest spawning winter steelhead in the State. When the season was first established only about 15% of the winter steelhead spawning had occurred by the end of April. There was nearly as many wild winters spawning after the first of June as spawning before the first of May. Peak spawning typically was in the middle part of May.
Of the nearly 300 miles of steelhead spawning habitat in the Skagit basin less than 20% (45 miles) would be open during the spring CnR season. In other words the season structure on the Skagit/Sauk is much more conservative in terms of interacting with wild spawning steelhead than say on the coast and certainly on SW Washington where on some rivers have year-round seasons with anglers fishing over ESA listed steelhead.
While it is possible that an angler might encounter a "running ripe" female that odds are pretty low. I have fished the spring CnR fishery from its first year and to the best of my recollection I have caught a single wild kelt (a spawned out wild summer steelhead) and a single "running ripe" female out of fairly large sample of wild winters caught.
Finally with the intense in-season monitoring WDFW should be more than able to hold any "impacts" below the allowed levels with the ability to close the fishery via emergency regulations quickly.
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#987051 - 03/22/18 10:56 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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#987069 - 03/22/18 02:56 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Backtrollin]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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As for walking through redds...There is no place that I'm aware of in the portion of the river that will be open that a person can wade across. Perhaps a couple side channels on the Sauk will reveal themselves, but for the most part you'll have to risk your life to walk on an active redd in the proposed season and open areas.
I'm sure everyone will have a story of seeing an accessible redd, but these opportunities will be rare.
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#987102 - 03/23/18 02:31 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
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Backtrollin,
Just to reiterate, Smalma addressed the points you asked me about. And I agree with him, especially about the traditional season running through April, since he had a strong hand in setting the seasons and regulations those 37 years ago. I'll just say that under the proposed regulations, which are very conservative, the biological risks are very low, but the quantity and quality of the hand-wringing on the part of the agencies and a few anglers are very high.
I have never caught a wild kelt in March or April nor a gravid female (one with loose eggs). I did catch some kelts as well as fresh unspawned fish in late May back when the river used to re-open on Memorial Day weekend.
I cannot know how many guys will walk on redds, but since the percentage of total redds before the end of April is low, I'll speculate that not many will be walked on.
These are not the reasons why NMFS is dragging its feet. NMFS is slow because it's a bureaucracy and therefor incapable of doing anything quickly. They also want to make sure all the paperwork is airtight enough to withstand potential litigation. It looks like some of our angling compatriots want to conserve Skagit steelhead by never allowing fishing for them ever again. However, opinions not supported by facts should not carry the day IMO.
Sg
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#987109 - 03/23/18 02:53 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Registered: 10/18/07
Posts: 174
Loc: Duvall, WA
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#987263 - 03/27/18 08:09 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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Backtrollin, These are not the reasons why NMFS is dragging its feet. NMFS is slow because it's a bureaucracy and therefor incapable of doing anything quickly. They also want to make sure all the paperwork is airtight enough to withstand potential litigation. It looks like some of our angling compatriots want to conserve Skagit steelhead by never allowing fishing for them ever again. However, opinions not supported by facts should not carry the day IMO.
Sg March quickly fading in the rear view mirror tonight.......... Bureaucracy? Oh well just biding my time watching the Maury Povich Show and Top Chef re-runs these day..... Fish On!
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#987294 - 03/29/18 07:45 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
Posts: 1385
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So. Thursday is hear, a day the opener was maybe going to happen. Any new news?
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#987295 - 03/29/18 08:04 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/25/01
Posts: 2844
Loc: Marysville
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As of last night (at NOF meeting) WDFW relayed that as of then they had not received a the permit from NOAA. WDFW has hired the staff to do the monitoring are ready to go shortly after receiving their permit.
They report that on their weekly calls the last 3 weeks they have been told next week. They have another call today or tomorrow. Next week????
Curt
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#987301 - 03/29/18 09:46 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 08/02/12
Posts: 1052
Loc: In a drift boat...
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What's the point? Everyone in a race to catch the last one. Same could be said for the entire OP as well. No thank you.
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#987303 - 03/29/18 10:45 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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Thanks Smalma and Salmo g for keeping us up to date!
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#987305 - 03/29/18 11:56 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 06/03/06
Posts: 1533
Loc: Tacoma
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I have got to wonder if any of the analysis they do will be carried over to next year, or if all the time and resources spent be wasted when they don't get the job done. In the private world, they would be getting penalized for everyday we are not fishing. In the end, they would not be paid and perhaps sued for losses. In their world, they probably will wait another week and then apply for over time to get it done by the end of April.
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#987310 - 03/29/18 03:27 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7428
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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Next year's analysis will be based on next year's run size. They will have to evaluate against that run.
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#987317 - 03/29/18 04:42 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Looks to me like the state may end up with the 2 week season they wanted in the first place, if we’re “lucky!”
Hiring the employees to run a presumptive 6 week season, well before the season length was set or approved, seems like a pretty big blunder by WDFW on several fronts. I know I’d get fired if I hired a bunch of employees without knowing if or when I’d actually need them.
I’d be curious to know if those people are being paid to perform other tasks, if they’re being paid to do nothing, if they’re sitting around waiting to maybe work etc.
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#987323 - 03/29/18 06:23 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Carcassman]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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Next year's analysis will be based on next year's run size. They will have to evaluate against that run. Thanks Carcassman for confirming my suspicions tonight! Nothin' better than job security!
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#987336 - 03/30/18 08:04 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13523
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Next year's analysis will be based on next year's run size. They will have to evaluate against that run. That's not how it works. The RMP and PEPD analyze whether fishing under the proposed plan would jeopardize the continued existence and recovery of Skagit steelhead. Since the take limit is graduated according to the estimated run size, the managers and analysts are persuaded that fishing won't interfere with the conservation goal. As an added precaution, the approval of the plan is for five years, at which time the results will be re-analyzed for verification. Sg
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#987337 - 03/30/18 08:08 AM
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Looks to me like the state may end up with the 2 week season they wanted in the first place, if we’re “lucky!”
Hiring the employees to run a presumptive 6 week season, well before the season length was set or approved, seems like a pretty big blunder by WDFW on several fronts. I know I’d get fired if I hired a bunch of employees without knowing if or when I’d actually need them.
I’d be curious to know if those people are being paid to perform other tasks, if they’re being paid to do nothing, if they’re sitting around waiting to maybe work etc. The state didn't ever advocate for a two week season. That was the remark of the regional biologist before he was given the authorization and budget to hire technicians to do the monitoring work. It takes time to hire and train personnel, so WDFW hired technicians on the time frame provided to them by NMFS. They really expected to be able to begin the fishing season around the first of March. Clearly, NMFS dropped the ball. The technicians have been assigned to other, but lower priority, work until the fishing season opens or the funding runs out. Sg
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#987383 - 04/01/18 06:45 AM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Registered: 01/03/17
Posts: 155
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#987677 - 04/06/18 09:21 PM
Re: Skagit rally
[Re: Bay wolf]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 09/05/14
Posts: 196
Loc: Stanwood WA
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That all important paperwork must have fallen on the floor and got swept up by the janitor.....Oh Well.......... The paperwork....uh, Ron Warren took it home to wipe his as$ with it! Glad to know the shareholders(?) received consideration this year! Can't make it up now can you Bay wolf.... Business as usual I see... Sad...Damn Sad!
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#987931 - 04/12/18 02:36 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 08/12/13
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Loc: Arlington, Washington
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#987957 - 04/13/18 03:43 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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#987959 - 04/13/18 06:32 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
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Not what it should have been, but 12 days more than you've had in several years. This is a rare win for sport fishers, and as such, we should celebrate it. The old adage, "Never look a gift horse in the mouth" comes to mind....
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#987961 - 04/13/18 08:20 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 02/02/15
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Hope it all doesn't turn the river into a complete circus. Handling a sled with a pair of oars is not a simple task, especially when someone's hooked-up with a toad of a steelhead.
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#987970 - 04/13/18 11:10 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 06/30/14
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Not what it should have been, but 12 days more than you've had in several years. This is a rare win for sport fishers, and as such, we should celebrate it. The old adage, "Never look a gift horse in the mouth" comes to mind.... Personally, it is the same number I've had the last several years. With the short notice and my schedule I won't be fishing it. Still, I know that the occupy Skagit folks have nearly performed a miracle getting it to this point.
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#987976 - 04/13/18 01:23 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 03/30/02
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Loc: Lake Stevens
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I can't miss this party
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#988019 - 04/15/18 07:29 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
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Sauk.....I'm sure it blew out yesterday. Anybody try it anyway?
Edited by RUNnGUN (04/15/18 07:30 AM)
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#988029 - 04/15/18 01:15 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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Salmo and I did some "ceremonial" fishing at the mouth on Saturday. She was pretty dirty.
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#988057 - 04/16/18 09:15 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Sauk was not fishable, upper Skagit was, and was also kind enough to lend us several steelhead for a short time before sending them back to do their thing.
Fish on...
Todd
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#988063 - 04/16/18 10:22 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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The Tide changed
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SalmoG- We tried to find you at rockport in the afternoon but just missed ya. Sorry you got stuck in that squall. I was driving back down to the take out when in hit and thought to myself, Im' glad Im not still on the water!
Nick, Todd, and I went 4-4 Saturday. All Dime bright really healthy Skagit Wild Steelhead. Nick caught his best ever Steelhead after it kicked his ass all over the river...around a 14 lb hen...Todd caught one on his first or second cast, above the cascade and below the put in, that went 11-12 lbs..beautiful buck.... & I didnt catch a fish, but it didnt matter...it was so nice just to be back fishing on the river again.
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#988085 - 04/16/18 06:09 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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My Waders are Moist
Registered: 11/20/08
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Team Bed Shitters here did good hooking them but not so much landing them. We got spooled by a nice fish on a plug rod missing half its line and I heard from across the river “You fawkin bed shitters!” and Im still chuckling about that.
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#988086 - 04/16/18 07:00 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
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Team Bed Shitters here did good hooking them but not so much landing them. We got spooled by a nice fish on a plug rod missing half its line and I heard from across the river “You fawkin bed shitters!” and Im still chuckling about that. That IS funny. Sounds like everyone's genuinely glad just to be back out there. Pretty cool.
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#988090 - 04/16/18 09:14 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 02/02/05
Posts: 337
Loc: Lake Stevens
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Team Bed Shitters here did good hooking them but not so much landing them. We got spooled by a nice fish on a plug rod missing half its line and I heard from across the river “You fawkin bed shitters!” and Im still chuckling about that. Are you going to tell the 2nd half of that story.......
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#988091 - 04/17/18 05:41 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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My Waders are Moist
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Team Bed Shitters here did good hooking them but not so much landing them. We got spooled by a nice fish on a plug rod missing half its line and I heard from across the river “You fawkin bed shitters!” and Im still chuckling about that. Are you going to tell the 2nd half of that story....... Lol, I figured people would just think I was telling an Evo type story and that I was full of [Bleeeeep!].
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#988094 - 04/17/18 08:13 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 02/23/08
Posts: 176
Loc: Pierce county
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This sound like a fun time, glad you guys got to go and do what you do, now if we can get a rally going to get my ass back on the Green... I miss that canyon. AMEN..........And if we are going to dream, let's dream big. Love to be able to fish the Puyallup and Carbon through the month of March once again! So much lost opportunity.
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#988095 - 04/17/18 08:25 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
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Posts: 13523
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Team Bed Shitters here did good hooking them but not so much landing them. We got spooled by a nice fish on a plug rod missing half its line and I heard from across the river “You fawkin bed shitters!” and Im still chuckling about that. I heard about a fish being hooked on a plug on the upper river. Never heard about a "the rest of the story."
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#988096 - 04/17/18 08:27 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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This sound like a fun time, glad you guys got to go and do what you do, now if we can get a rally going to get my ass back on the Green... I miss that canyon. Occupy Green?
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#988104 - 04/17/18 12:21 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Returning Adult
Registered: 02/02/05
Posts: 337
Loc: Lake Stevens
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"The rest of the story"...
we were below them side drifting and saw the commotion. I yelled my opinion of their actions after I saw and heard a loud pop. Then a couple minutes later, we saw a nice steelhead jump next to us with something pink in its mouth.
We continue side drifting down and this crazed steelhead continues following us down the river cartwheeling.
We get about a mile, maybe more, down stream and BigO snags something. Starts reeling in and when his okie lifts out of the air 5', we realize the braid he hooked has a very tired steelhead on the end of it.
I grab the braid and proceed to hand line in 100 yards of braid. Not without a couple good runs by the fish. Dicey situation with braid in your hands. We get the 12ish lb buck next to the boat and pop the hook.
Later we returned the braid and plug to it's rightful owner.
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#988105 - 04/17/18 12:30 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 08/31/00
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Loc: Everett
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That is one awesome story.....
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#988118 - 04/17/18 04:24 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 12/17/10
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Loc: Brier, WA
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That is one awesome story..... Best part is the 100 yards of braid that won't be in the river for the next decade.
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#988136 - 04/18/18 08:49 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Considering we were locked out of the spring fishery for nine years, catching a 12 pounder on my second cast just as the sun was just peeking over the mountains and mist was rising off of all the trees around us was one of the best steelhead fishing experiences I have had in a long time.
Catching a couple more was a wonderful bonus, but honestly, I could have been done right there and gone home happy.
I wish I could carve out another couple days to get up there when the Sauk is in shape, that's my only regret.
Watching Nick experience his first true mid-teen gorgeous hen do what they do...make half a dozen long runs punctuated by full body jumps and belly flops...was another highlight.
There is not a better fish in the world than a true spring 14 pound hen.
Fish on...
Todd
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#988279 - 04/21/18 05:52 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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The Skagit tribe has been netting a few Atlantics - 42 miles upriver! This most recent catch was...one fish.
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#988291 - 04/21/18 04:22 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Registered: 06/30/14
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The Skagit tribe has been netting a few Atlantics - 42 miles upriver! This most recent catch was...one fish. They caught more than one fish. Just one of them was an Atlantic. Call it lucky, if you want, that the rest of their catch was most likely steelhead and Chinook.
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#988313 - 04/22/18 06:16 AM
Re: Skagit rally
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 01/30/13
Posts: 233
Loc: Skagit
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Yep...I was referring to the one atlantic.
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#988410 - 04/24/18 05:49 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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Why would they net 40 miles upriver? Is that normal if we were back 10-15 yrs. during the times of traditional tribal harvest? Thought their traditional netting areas were down above tide water?
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#988411 - 04/24/18 06:27 PM
Re: Skagit rally
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
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Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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Each Tribe has defined Usual and Accustomed areas where they can fish. To fish in the lower river the upper river tribes have to be invited; their U&A is way upriver.
I think the Swinomish/Lower Skagit were the only folks with U&A in the lower river/tidewater.
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