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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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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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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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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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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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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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Really low water conditions are going to put a ton of extra fish into nets. Fixed schedules will nuke 'em.
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Well damn this weather thing is getting to where it not so much a spectator sport but something of concern. The Satsop is at around 200cfs which is just some above record lows. For wild Coho it can get ugly especially the East Fork which is totally d
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That's for sure. He was involved in a lot. I came to WDF in 80 when he was AD I was a low level bio. Had a few work related meetings and also talked about fishing often. I think he spent most of his life, especially working, doing fun things.
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I am old and when you look back lots of things come to mind. Did not know Frank all that well but I do know this, he had one hell of a good life. Can't ask for much better.
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The services already held were last Wednesday; something coming up probably August.
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Just a note that Frank passed recently. There was a small Catholic/Military funeral. His son Greg has told me that there will be a memorial later this summer at Greg's here in Olympia.
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Not sure about dates or the San Juans specifically, but there was a lot of tribal crabbing going on last month in both 8-1 and 8-2. SF
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