05-17-2017, 10:01 PM
It is official the Washington and Oregon soothsayers have just stated they have cut the projections over Bonneville from 160,000 to 75,000 and Washington closed the season which had hardly commenced on the Snake. Things may change but this is likely going to be the reality. Idaho boys are meeting in Riggins and l expect a curtailment to take place both in limits and possible days per week similar to Clearwater. I do not know how with such a fraction of the fish especially summer run over Bonneville they can make those upriver decisions at this time. Seeing the late run they should have delayed their meeting at least a week. Water conditions are dropping and will not start to go up until middle of next week at Bonneville so if the numbers are going to come up they better do so dramatically in the next four or five days as very high water looks possible by next Saturday. I would project number over Granite to hopefully be around 40,000 which would be the average of 2005,06 and 07. Hope I am wrong but we will see.
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