Why? Okanagan, lake washington, baker lake....all brand new sockeye fisheries started ~2010 yielding 10s of thousands if not 100s of thousands of returns. When I was in bend there was bid controversies over this new technology and how expensive it was. I'm not sure 20 or even 100 years is going...
I stand corrected! When I lived in bend they deemed that $100 million dollar fish project an epic fail. 4-5 years later we have a run of 100 fish. I think it is a fail. Anyhow was in brewster for the sockeye fishery when all things started going south. Read about the deschutes and fish...
Thanks for the welcome! I was out there from 8 to 10:30. I was in a drifter with a 9.9 so I am not always motivated to venture that far. All my fish were caught between the bridge and the boat ramp. Although, I have done a fair amount of crabbing down by the coast guard station this year and...
Fished for a couple of hours early on 8/16 and got 2 back to back. Went back on the the 23rd, slept through my alarm, yet limited out again in 2 1/2 hours. One of which weighed in at 33 lbs. There's fish on the finder. Seems like the season is starting off hot!