Got some friends coming in for the weekend and was thinking about taking them down to the hatchery zone for some dog walking. Anybody heard any reports out of the combat zone? Are the fish in yet and how about the native netting, is that going on yet? Any leads would be welcome.

Nothing yet still a week or 2 away.Johns creek has some fish in now a guy could try that.TM

There are some fish in there ( 2 to 3 schools). I was there sunday. Hooked in to a couple of cromers. I looks like just the pilot runs, there should be quite a few fish in there this weekend.

Don't know about Hoodsport, but the word from a netter early this week was a catch of 11 fish the first day, 25 the next, and 2500 the third day, all fishing in the same spot. Looks like the first runs should be there in numbers. Going out tomorrow in the upper Canal, so hopefully I can hit some bright fish. If I do anything especially good, I'll pass it on. However, I've never fished for bright chum, so my results may not be proof of anything.

trout I dont know where you were but the hoodsport hatchery hasnt seen a fish yet.. TM

Hey TM,

I dunked a corky at the hatchery last Saturday and there are SOME fish there. More than 1 and less than 10,000. I saw several chromers swim by and several more finning and jumping. At high tide, there were probably 30 or so right at the gate to the hatchery, all chromers.

Just my observations, fwiw.

waz at the hood mon - thur on a fish cat pontoon boat mon only a few fishing went to alian sp? johns creek talked to gamewarden young pup said a few wer cought talked to a fisherman who waz at kennedy creek saw one caught darkmarsmellow went back to hoodhach Tues cought a hen chrome drug me too middle of canel seal waz cken me out w/ no net or gaf and pontoons going soft finaly got back cought abig buck waz told u can have only 2 wends bad day moving boat and lost my rod and reel Pen Prinion ALooims rod 7,8 couldent find it went back at low tide lots of fisherman and womem THurs even more fisherman if anybody finds my set up theres $ fer ya ha ha fish probly took it fer a ride learned a big lesson strap dat rod down still better than worken and cuten firewood

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