Northwest Fishing Reports

Decided to stay close to home today and fish the Green for some steel. Well no luck for the steelhead but this little guy showed up. even year humpy. How long til they come up every year :#-o

Where on the green was this and is that normal?

No, at least I dont think its normal... I was fishing lower flaming geyser.

Still leftover from last year still tryin to find a spot to spawn lol

i heard a long time ago there were a couple of even year runs up north that got fished out. they were never as big an odd year run. maybe their population is gettin back up there that they can expand again. btw barrier dam on the cow counted two pinks last week, i've never heard of a run there before

A couple weeks ago ifished the Hoh river and spoke with a native who said that he had netted a grip of silvers and about a dozen pinks. Appearantly they run every year just in smaller number.

got 1 out of the puke 2 weeks ago talked to another on the puke that got 1 they had 2 n the cow last week

I dont think the fish follow the schedule set up by the WDFW.I have a feeling they (salmon) have their own agenda.Maybe if the state fined the salmon,they would adhere to the states rules better.

There are a few even year humpy runs in a few Puget Sound Rivers.... Snohomish system has one as well....Not large runs by any means, but some do return on even years.

Did you release it?

Salmon "always return to the river they were born in"

... except for those salmon that decide to wander off to new river systems. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any salmon in many rivers due to natural occurances, like volcanoes for example. Not only did those pinks show up in the Cowlitz in an EVEN year, there were also MULTIPLE sockeye salmon that showed up at the Cowlitz.

How large was the humpy? I wonder if this is a fish that has just survived as part of a natural 2 year cycle that was always present, or if it adapted to conditions and decided to show up after 3 years. Either way, kinda cool.

Blackmouth wrote:There are a few even year humpy runs in a few Puget Sound Rivers.... Snohomish system has one as well....Not large runs by any means, but some do return on even years.

I haven't caught any on off years yet, but that is my understanding as well...

By the way, I saw sockey salmon cought in the upper stilly on fly. Us I know Alaska pinks spawn in even years, maybe they are one of them? They could follow other salmon in the ocean. Interesting affair. The more fish in the river the better protection for endangered species too.

motorek wrote:By the way, I saw sockey salmon cought in the upper stilly on fly. Us I know Alaska pinks spawn in even years, maybe they are one of them? They could follow other salmon in the ocean. Interesting affair. The more fish in the river the better protection for endangered species too.

I would add the word Native to the last line of more fish. More native fish. If it were non native to a certain river system it could deplete food stocks or spawning room for the indigenous species.

Yes it was released, thanks for All the responses everyone. The humpy was typical probably 4lbs or so.