I do not know where, exactly, they fish for broodstock in the Queets... except the lower 6 miles are not it.

The fish need to be in the river for several days and that usually means several miles, upstream. Taking fish just out of the salt can result in broodstock pre-spawning mortality of 50% and that is not a good use of fish.

Taken further upstream, a well designed chinook broodstock capture, transport and holding system (which the Quinaults have) can result in pre-spawning mortality of less than 5%. The sleds with water and 02 in them are critical to the low mortality rate.

I know they fish the Olympus View drift and I know they fish up at Streaters Crossing. So, it is easy to assume that there are good places to catch broodstock up and downstream from those two spots... depending on flow conditions.