One thing i've noticed this year, at least on the Yuba.....Pretty darn good fall run, one of the better one's ive seen (although i hear that the feather had a down year, which is odd considering the yuba was probably up as far as counts go).
One of the WORST winter runs i have seen, didn't see more than a dozen late run salmon. I know that there is more at play then fish mortality due to fishing (e.g. super low flows), but i wonder how much of an impact this years late salmon fishing season had on the winter run salmon. I was curious how people were going to fair, fishing late in the year for salmon, so I would check the fishsniffer board fairly often, and it seemed like they had a pretty decent success rate, with boats averaging probably 1 fish per baot (mind you it seemed like a TONE of people were fishing so these numbers add up quickly).
Given the good fall run, with no fishing pressure, and the piss poor winter run, with tons of pressure, and the discrepancies between rates of return, i wonder just how big of an impact the fishing had?
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