In his book, Steelhead Fly Fishing and Flies (which contains much interesting and "scientific" data on historic runs and life histories), Trey Combs states that the historic peak of wild runs on most peninsula streams was February.

He shows some catch data from 1970, which shows catches fairly well spread out from December to March, with an early peak in Dec/Jan and a later one in March. He also states that even though no plantings were occuring as of the writing, plants of early returning hatchery fish had already been made in the Quillayute system and Hoh. Catches for rivers he made no mention of receiving plants were spread fairly equally, with catches only about 10-15 % higher in Feb/Mar than in Dec/Jan.

This is not conclusive, but is nevertheless interesting.

We need some REAL old-timers to give some info. Anyone know of any retirement homes in Forks?
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