#1064222 - 09/23/24 05:20 PM
Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET
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I sent an email to the Port of Aberdeen website using the email address that Mr. Hamilton gave me. I sent it a week ago asking about the possibility of opening Sterling Landing on Oct. 1 when fishing opens for salmon. Still no response.
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#1064224 - Yesterday at 09:50 AM
Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET
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River Nutrients
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Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...
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9/24/2024
Lifter99, I sent a email also....about history of the bar, that Mr. Sterling bought the land so that the general public would have access to that part of the river.
I got a answer "Thanks Bill"
I'm thinking the general public better find other access to the Wynoochee. As I read the sign on the locked gate....NO ACCESS, legally, to that whole area.
This is now Port of Grays Harbor, just like Friends Landing, property. The Port makes the call, and on Sterling Landing, that has been a "money flow out, with nothing coming in"
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#1064225 - Yesterday at 11:15 AM
Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET
[Re: DrifterWA]
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Registered: 03/03/09
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I have had some inquiries on what I see on the river. Well not much is an understatement and to be honest damn strange. Some folks are catching for sure and for others not so much. Fish are coming into the river but not hanging out or staging in middle section of tidewater. It seems they are simply moving up with few showing no jumping rolling no nothing here in the Central Park reach. Why I have no idea and this pattern I have not seen since the 90s. When compared to the last four years when the Coho were way up early in large numbers it is just the opposite this year. So if I had to hazard a guess I would say this year looks to be more of a traditional run timing performance.
Chehalis flows are 336 cfs at Porter and several tribs are below average but not a record low flows. The Olympic streams forecast precipitation is around an inch plus or minus depending on location over the next couple of days. Upper Chehalis not so with half to three quarters an inch. Ten days out another rain event after the one forecast for the next couple of days.
So choose wisely because I do not believe that the fish are going to help us out a lot. Fish do what fish do and volunteering to make thing easy for anglers I doubt is one of their priorities!
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#1064229 - Yesterday at 02:26 PM
Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7530
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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Another thing to remember about fish, especially those runs exposed to high harvest rates, is they spawn (or get their eggs taken) because they weren't caught.
If you put a 20-30% total exploitation on a run, most of what spawns was obviously not caught, but a lot of "dumber" ones made it to the grounds. You take 90-95% (nice hatchery run) and almost every fish was not on'y exposed to fishing but survived. By not biting, by not pausing on the way up, by coming in when the seasons were closed.
And we are changing the rain patterns. I took a look once at rainfall in the Cedar River watershed with a break, I think, as pre and post 1980. The rainfall over September-December was the same but as I recall September and October were much drier and November much wetter. Changes how the fish respond.
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#1064232 - Yesterday at 09:03 PM
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[Re: Carcassman]
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Registered: 03/03/09
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When I was much younger and started working in the woods Hoot Owl even after Oct 15th happened. Couple of times woods stayed locked down and hunting season set back until the rains came. Our summers are much different than the 1960s and 70s. Now I feel old!
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#1064233 - 50 minutes 9 seconds ago
Re: FISHINGTHECHEHALIS.NET
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
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Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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When we started out in the Discovery Bay studies we installed a weather station. We started in fall of '76, which was a big drought. Drought broke in March of '77. For the next couple of years we had a minimum of one inch of rain every month into, I think, the late summer of '79. They stopped collecting that data after I left, but such ling-term data on rain, flows, temperatures, and such is critical to our understanding of what the resources are doing.
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