Amen to that!

I agree that it's probably not going to go like last season, and I think (hope) you lower river folks are going to have some fun, as long as the fish start moving before the nets go in.

My hope is always for steady movement (as opposed to bulk movement in brief events, which is what we get most of the time), because that tends to make for longer seasons and spread out the success among all groups. Like you said, nobody knows the magic set of circumstances that guarantee good fishing seasons, but my anecdotal take is that if NOAA is right, the OP will be getting light but steady rainfall over the next 10 days, with one event on the 18th that could dump an inch in the mountains. That should at least double flows (which are still quite low, but cooling) in the lower tribs, and past experience suggests that should be plenty to move some fish. Hope so, but yeah....