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    West coast salmon recovery

    The history of the Bristol Bay sockeye runs is really fascinating. It helps having not only the prediction of the run, but then confirmation of the run size while the fish are still in the ocean and then monitoring of every tributary to count actual escapement before fishing takes place. It...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    The wild sockeye return for Bristol Bay is expected to be lower this year but still phenomenal compared to the Lower 48. They predict a 29 million fish harvest quota after allowing for escapement. I have not dove into why UW has that prediction this year. I worked on that survey program for a...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    I think you are on the right track. Beyond factory trawlers I think there is credible evidence that the State of Alaska pumping out hundreds of millions of pink and chum hatchery fish is causing a problem with Kings and Coho. The fact that the Alaska Chinook population has crashed as well as...
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    Songs that mellow you out

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    Mid Term Election - Zinke vs D TBD

    A strong proponent of public lands and a strong proponent of the Beef country of origin labeling is a win in MT. Bummer about the Boundary waters mining support. We’ll see how he does when the chips are down with the US critical metals mining on the Bitterroot River in MT.
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    West coast salmon recovery

    Meateater’s podcast this week on “Who will save the Columbia River’s Salmon” is well worth the listen. No easy answers.
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    The Tax Man Cometh

    I had it happen and lost some of a front quarter and a back strap on a buck while I made a 45 minute round trip to the truck for a cart. There were probably 25 magpies and crows in the trees around the site and they did a ton of damage quickly. Won’t happen again.
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    Review of NWRs and Fish Hatcheries

    Yep—same with Orofino. Mandated for Dworshak dam construction and run by the Nez Perce tribe. There are another group of Idaho hatcheries in place because of the Hells Canyon dam complex blocking fish passage on the Snake.
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    Review of NWRs and Fish Hatcheries

    In addition there a quite a few legally mandated hatcheries that were allowed in compensation for not installing fish ladders during dam design.
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    When to keep or replace a vehichle

    A guy stopped by my jobsite the other day as part of a paving crew. He was nervous to shut off what was left of his 2008 Tundra because he thought it might not restart. It has 470,000 miles on it! It made me feel pretty good about my 2012 Tundra with only 156,000!
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    Ocean Boat, Outboard Vs I/O

    Get an understanding of your fuel consumption for Tuna fishing. Use the 1/3 rule. 1/3rd tank to the grounds and fishing, 1/3rd tank to get back, 1/3rd tank spare in case the bar crossing gets bad and you have to run somewhere else or wait it out.
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    West coast salmon recovery

    I agree that the big problem is happening at sea. Something like this though could make recovery even more difficult.
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    West coast salmon recovery

    https://www.science.org/content/article/alaska-s-salmon-plummet-scientists-home-killer
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    Friday Gun Tunes

    I still turn this up loud when it comes up on the playlist!
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    A little humour for your day

    Big fat bag of reality! Pray for a break in September and October. Rinse and repeat until retirement!
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    Wyoming Kokanee

    Totally envious of spending the month of September hunting and fishing. If I could retire now I’d join them! We’d find those Kokes! Best of luck!
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    Shooting in Anaconda

    One of our job sites was shutdown there today from the road closures. There was a lively debate in house about not having guns on the job site. Today we were wishing the superintendent was armed.
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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    I rode past the office on Sunday early and was super pleased to see 6 or 8 fire teams heading out. I was more pleased to pass 6 or 8 other teams returning that had been out all night.
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    Catch All Fishing Thread

    How deep were the Sablefish? I used to commercial fish them around 600 Fathoms! It would have been a heck of a long winch up!
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    Wildfire management on public lands, whats your view on it in the way of hunting in fishing.

    I don’t really think that much of it has to do with the health of forests or wellbeing of wildlife. It has to do with a group of law firms that have made a business model of suing Federal and State governments regardless of the merit of a project. The Forest Service and most of the other...

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