Just got back from a trip to the Wind River, with my son and 2 other fishing buddies. After leaving Tacoma at Midnight Friday we arrived in the launch line about 4:30 and were in the water by 5:00. Fished until about 11:30 with 1 fish for the 4 of us.
Saw the Gamies, National Forest Service Enforcement, and a County Mountie (with some big A** binochs ) looking for boats outside the sport fishing line and coming into the launch. We were checked by a fish checker who also at the ramp keeping an EYE on the ZOO.
Headed for our hotel to get some sleep so that we could come back for the evening bite ( HA,HA )Fished until 7:30PM when the Wind Came up and blew us off the Lake.
We fished 4 hours Sunday morning with about half as many boats as Saturday, and it was still a ZOO, saw only 2 fish caught. The fish were way outside the line we could see them jumping and the Indians trolling about mid channel and knocking the S*** out of them. Talked to a bioligist and he said there was about 50k fish holding above the dam , they must be waiting for a "net escort" to come up the river.
I don't think we'll go back for a while!