"-rick-" wrote in message
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Bill McKee wrote:

I think they closed all of the Columbia to salmon fishing. So area 10 is
out. Too many fur bags. They are now eating the sturgeon


A sea lion took a spring chinook away from my wife a few weeks ago on
Multnomah channel. I broke it off without giving chase but then wondered
if I could have harassed it into letting go. That notion was dispelled the
next week after watching a boat chase one around for about 20 minutes. The
damn thing still got away with his fish.

The Columbia spring chinook run is coming in under 30% of expected but the
Willamette run is about as predicted. One major difference is the series
of dams on the Columbia. When these fish migrated out in '02 we had low
flows and they held back water for power generation. Fish need rivers to
flow.

-rick-

ps. I think you mean bouy 10 (at the Columbia mouth).

Yes, is the reason for my confusion. As to Furbags, we are losing lots of
salmon to them. Last year, a commercial guy I know, said he lost about 50%
of his fish. I see they are now going after sturgeon as they have decimated
all the rest of the endangered species fish.