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Management at its best?

Tell that to the people that fished those rivers back in the 50's, 60's and 70's.

Things are a mere shadow of what they were.

My grandpa worked in logging camps out on the Sol Duc, Hoh and Queets back in the 40's and 50's and did a good bit of fishing for all species.

My dad caught the tail end of the good old days in the 60's and early 70's.

Mere fragments only exist of what was out there and what we had.

I could go on and on about what things were like from the first hand accounts I have heard but that would be pointless.

If you want the truth of "managemant at its best" why dont you talk to some of those guys that lived and worked out there in the 30's, 40's and 50's. They can tell you about what it was like before the Boldt decision and the hatcherys.

They can tell you about the Native steelhead in October and November that were once very plentiful. They can tell you about the spring chinook that were comming out your ears on the Queets and Hoh as well as the Quileute system.

How bout Goodman Creek when the Mainline was first punched in before they started planting any hatchery fish?

Everything is based on numbers from the 70's and 80's when all the damage was already done and the runs were decimated.

What about the Hamma, Skoke, Duckabush and Dose of the 30's and 40's how bout the Dungeness humpies?

What about the in river spawning Sockey of the Queets, how many Sockey historically were in the Quinault before the cannery in the 20's.