06-13-2014, 05:50 PM
I've been pretty out-spoken towards the skewed IDFG harvest reports that many of us base our vacations upon, travel hundreds of miles, and spend countless $$$. I've got my share of critics out there, so I thought I throw a small example out there, besides my story of sportsmen catching hundreds of fish during a week of un-fishable flows on the Little Salmon River a couple seasons back.
I realize that each Harvest Report states that it's an "estimate", but our harvest share, and season lengths, depend upon these "harvest" numbers. Guys who love the So. Fork, and really watch that fishery, are continually upset at the numbers reported on that River.
As of Sunday, June 8th, the Clearwater Region reports that there have been 1,324 adult chinook harvested in the Little River. The number recited to me by a phone call to the Dept, and the reporting by the Rapid River hatchery all week, states that the harvest number of adults stands at 1,461 through the 8th. Now this morning, the RR hatchery recording is touting a harvest of 1,504 adults through last Sunday.
So which "estimate" do we believe? I'll bet I know which number they'll use to say that the sportfishermen have reached our harvest quota, and close our season....
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I realize that each Harvest Report states that it's an "estimate", but our harvest share, and season lengths, depend upon these "harvest" numbers. Guys who love the So. Fork, and really watch that fishery, are continually upset at the numbers reported on that River.
As of Sunday, June 8th, the Clearwater Region reports that there have been 1,324 adult chinook harvested in the Little River. The number recited to me by a phone call to the Dept, and the reporting by the Rapid River hatchery all week, states that the harvest number of adults stands at 1,461 through the 8th. Now this morning, the RR hatchery recording is touting a harvest of 1,504 adults through last Sunday.
So which "estimate" do we believe? I'll bet I know which number they'll use to say that the sportfishermen have reached our harvest quota, and close our season....
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