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Managing WA's fish and wildlife, in today's world, is a very complex operation. It requires, at all levels from staff to commissioners, people who can put their personal views and preferences to the side and do what is best for the various resources
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WA Fish and Wildlife Commission should serve public, accountability Ryan Garrett Special to The Seattle Times Last year, I wrote about multiple issues where the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission failed to live up to its mandate. While some mig
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The Chehalis Springers are kinda sorta strange as the river is rain driven not snow but the Summers will wander in latter part of August. For years Montesano R-6 claimed there were not Summers only early fall as they did not want to manage for them.
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I don't remember my timings all that well except that we were running Fall Chinook updates and fisheries in late July/eraly August. But this was PS and the glaciers may have encouraged movement. I know you're more familiar with the Chehalis but wha
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So doing my morning coffee on the deck ( sometimes referred to as sunning myself like a Sealion ) I was surprised to see two good sized Chinook jump in front of the house. Bit unusual as Springers normally clear South Elma before the end of July. Als
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Glad the catching is picking up but what is the return versus forecast? If less fish are coming back than we thought, coastwide, then maybe there is an issue out there worth considering.
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I also see that they are beach seining Chinook at Hoodsport so at least some falls are looking for freshwater. The netting was better here about a decade ago. I recall one morning when they had. a tote full of fish.
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They should be showing by now. 11 and 12 have been productive this past week with a good number of both hatchery and un clipped on offer...
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It looks like the Sockeye catching outta Baker was picking up, with really nice sized fish showing up on the web...
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Seems it would help the business. Plus, it will get word out about management issues so folks can participate if they wish.
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The site has issues and they are known to Bob and others. Go figure as to why he doesn't fix it. He is missing one hell of an oportunity to use the site to advance things fishing and his business. Few years back a guide I fished with overseas used hi
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Here's my guess, distilled from years with WDFW and the state. The Governor, who as AG was not all that thrilled with transparency, will allow the Commissioners in question to leave at the end of their terms. He might try to get the one with a coupl
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Most recent Fraser nortice was scary. Early Stuart was updated at about 2/3 of forecast; not bad. The Summers were updated to about 20% of forecast. Haven't had a fishing report yet from family on the Kenai to se how the annual fillet collection i
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It's weird. If I just click on a thread I get the error message. If I post a new thread, then all the old ones open up. Actually, great way to get folks to post.
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This morning we had our first of the year gill net out front in Budd Inet. They tossed one dogfish and that was all I saw taken from the net. Seems a tad early to me but that suggests they must be moving down through 13.
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