Article in Seattle Times 9/29/02 online edition:
Lake Washington update
The number of coho returning to the Lake Washington watershed remains low, but no emergency closure of the sport coho fishery north of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge has been made.
"There is no closure at this time, but the coho run is way down from last year," said Steve Foley, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist. "From what we've seen there hasn't been much fishing pressure at all on the lake."
Through Wednesday, about 3,300 coho had entered the lake. Biologists believe the run could be late because anglers in the Strait of Juan de Fuca continue to catch good numbers of coho.
Foley also said about 7,000 kings have entered the lake, which is not large but not bad compared with some returns of past years.
"On Tuesday we counted 50 kings spawning in Bear Creek, and more than 10,000 sockeye either dead or still alive," Foley said. "Without any recent rain I'd say that is an awful lot of sockeye spawning in the creek."
==> Side note: Me and my dad went out on Saturday 9/28/02 and had seen a few jump, one was a fat one (don't know if Coho or Chinook though) by the sound of the splash it made. Dad caught a 2-3# Cutthroat, nice coloring. On water at 6:10 out by 10:00am. No Coho caught but seen some milling on surface. I caught a small rainbow possibly cutthroat but lost. All fish landed on coho setup (flasher and blue or red Gomokatsu hook - size unknown).
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