Happy New Year! 
II wish everyone health, wealth, happiness, and a reasonable amount of water with lots of fish!

 

Due to knee replacement surgery, I was unable to attend opening day for the first time in 20 years. I had a few friends who sent me some reports and photos to share.

 

The last salmon count from the Woodbridge Dam Fish Ladder had a cumulative total of over 36K fish. Keeping in mind that the hatchery has limitations on capacity of how many fish they can harvest eggs from. The salmon that don't get access to the hatchery, will spawn in the river and produce wild fish. All this said, please refrain from wading in the river until at least the end of January. We all think we know what salmon redds (nests) look like, but there are so many, you almost can't avoid stepping on them.

 

The catch & release reports I got were all from fly fisherman. Based on the information I got, there were a few nice fish caught & released.