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Sockeye counts here and there by Carcassman @ 07/17/26 07:47 AM

It seems that this year's returns to Columbia, Baker Trap, Lake WA trap are all on the low to really low side. Reading that Chinook counts in AK are way down. Is there any actually quantified return on the Coast that is looking good? Fraser stuff

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Re: Frank Haw by Carcassman @ 07/13/26 08:06 AM

Pete Bergmann was also at WDF and he was part of NWMT. Another person, whom I never met, was Jefferts as it was called the Bergmann-Jefferts tag in the early years. I think the NWMT moved at least some of its offices to the Olympia area as Pete and

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Re: Frank Haw by Salmo g. @ 07/13/26 07:34 AM

If memory serves, Frank had an old friend who left IBM and returned to the PNW. Frank told him about the difficulties WDF was having when trying to mark large groups of smolts for fishery studies. Together, they came up with coded wire tags. The f

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Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET by Carcassman @ 07/13/26 07:08 AM

The first year we worked the Snow Creek traps was the ''76-77 drought. Coho came in all right but only accessed half the creek ro spawn in due to an intermittent barrier. Gave us half the normal smolt output. Steelhead stayed out until March, when t

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Re: Frank Haw by Carcassman @ 07/13/26 06:59 AM

One thing that just came to mind was that he was one of the last to come into WDF?WDG?WDFW who started somewhere near the bottom as a field person and worked their way up to the top. That meant that along the way he absorbed institutional memory, wo

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Re: Frank Haw by Tug 3 @ 07/12/26 08:47 PM

Just to let people know, Frank passed peacefully at home with his family. Quite a guy, for sure. There will be a lot said and written about him - all positive.

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Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET by Rivrguy @ 07/12/26 08:41 PM

That was my thought also but then I remembered that the fish have came in early the last few years before the QIN nets went in. In the 90s one year it was the 3rd week of Nov before Coho got past Schafer Park and they were about 75% brights. Why I re

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Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET by Carcassman @ 07/12/26 07:43 PM

Really low water conditions are going to put a ton of extra fish into nets. Fixed schedules will nuke 'em.