2022 2023 fish regs

are they out yet?

No. Reg pamphlet year starts July 1.

so when do the rivers around aberdeen open this yr??

I heard Nov 1st

i heard they close Nov 1st

Chehalis River Mouth to South Elma Bridge Aug 1-Sept 15 : Release adult salmon
Chehalis river mouth to Fuller Bridge Sept 16-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Chehalis river mouth to Fuller Bridge Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Chehalis river mouth to Fuller Bridge Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho
Chehalis River Fuller Bridge up to High Bridge Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Chehalis River Fuller Bridge up to High Bridge Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Chehalis River Fuller Bridge up to High Bridge Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho


Hoquiam Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Wishkah Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Wynoochee Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Satsop Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Black River Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Skookumchuck Oct 16-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Newaukum Oct 16-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Elk and Johns Oct 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: Release adult Chinook
Nov 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook
Dec 1 Adult bag: Release Chinook and wild coho

Humptulips River FW Sept. 1-Sept 30 2 Adult bag: release wild Coho
Oct. 1-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: 1 may be Chinook, release wild Chinook and wild Coho
Nov 1-Dec 31 1 Adult bag: release Chinook and wild Coho

Area 2A/2D Week 40 1 7 hr days, tangle net, live boxes, short soak, release wild Chinook
Area 2A/2D Week 42 1 7 hr days, tangle net, live boxes, short soak, release wild Chinook
Area 2A/2D Week 43 2 12 hr days, live boxes, short soak, release wild Chinook
Area 2A/2D Week 44 3 12 hr days, live boxes, short soak, release wild Chinook
Area 2A/2D Week 45 2 12 hr days, live boxes, short soak, release wild Chinook
Area 2C Week 43 2 7am Monday to 7pm Tue, live boxes
Area 2C Week 44 1 12 hr days, live boxes

im talking this spring.. for like fishing trout or summer run

No idea about trout in streams and Summerrun should like always.

2022 Grays Harbor Fall Non-Treaty Terminal Area Planning Model
Model 2 - NT Comm 2A/D 3-Wk 44, 2-Wk 45, 2C 4-Wk 43, 2-44; FW 1 fish Chehalis (FRAM 2124a)
Fishery Description
Sport
Marine 2.2 Dates Bag Limit
Area 2D only Sept 16-Oct 31 2 Adult bag: release Chinook (east of 2B only)
Nov 1 Adult bag: release Chinook
Area 2C only Aug 1-Sept 15 1 Adult bag: release wild Coho

Chehalis River Mouth to Hwy 6 No spring Chinook fishery

Don't they generally only open Spring Chinook on the Chehalis by emergency rule these days?

05/18/2022

WASHINGTON Sport Fishing Rules, Effective July 1 2021 - June 30, 2022

You need to find YOUR copy of the above publication, and study it like your last dollars depended on it.

No Springer fishing, for 2022. Well if you were fishing for trout, in the Chehalis, Saturday before Memorial Day opening and happen to hook a springer, legally it must be released.

Trout and summer run steelhead, Saturday before Memorial Day. Trout min size 14"

May 28th is the Saturday before Memorial Day.....

Picture to the left, Wynoochee River, between Carter Ck and White Bridge, ONLY boat on the river that day. Joe Durham and myself had many enjoyable days, mid 1980's - late 1990's, then "the world" found the summer run Wynoochee fishing..... grrrrrr

gillnetters get to keep hatchery kings? [Bleeeeep!].

Are we really sure that the Grays harbor streams will not close on Dec. 1 to protect wild steelhead again this year? Interesting.

if u bet the farm that it will close dec 1 u would be making a good bet

Yeah Steely, I heard through the grapevine that the Dec. 1 closure will happen again this year.

05/18/2022

Wild steelhead could be 4 or 5 life cycles before any real amount of returning Wild steelhead rebound, if even then.

Probably a smart move would be to "back off hatchery winter run steelhead plants", that only encourage many fisherpersons to fish on the hatchery S Head, and maybe hook some wild steelhead that WDFW is trying to protect.

Smart move, IMO, would be planting many summer run steelhead and few hatchery winter steelhead, might help save the Wild steelhead????????

We know the Humptulips, Wynoochee, could handle more summer S Head but maybe the Satsop, the Hoh, and maybe the upper Chehalis.

In the experiments with freshwater fertilization the general response is that salmon that rear for a year or more (coho and sockeye) respond almost immediately. In most cases, mykiss (resident and anadromous) have taken years to show a response in the adults. The Keogh had a immediate response in the rearing juveniles and this did result in a jump in adult returns.

So, it appears that mykiss has more controllers than the salmon. I agree with Drifter that we are decades out with meaningful wild anadromous mykiss recovery. That is, if we really are serious about mykiss recovery.

Just download the regs app bro! It’s pretty dope. I can access the regs on the go any time I need them from my phone. Its saved me many times over when on the road hittin up different spots across the state.