That's what they need on the World Famous Kenai River. It hurts me to report that the missing King Salmon mystery ( or not ) is not only continuing but as we're now in the 9th year or emergency closures it seems to be routine. These two graphs you've seen before tell the tale, 2021 is heading for the 3rd year in a row that minimum sonar counts were not achieved, it will be the worse run ever. It really bothers me, I'd hoped that I would be on the ground floor of a cool economy that gave opportunity to young people like I was when it all started... a word you here in Alaska a lot but seldom see put into practice....sustainable.
Ya know some people were happy to see me check out of the politics on the world famous and I know for certain that staff at ADF+G used to read this blog so I got some horse sense advice for them, it's really just another beg, please, please do your job better .
1. I think maybe we've tugged on the July Kenai King fishery so much that it will never find it's lost glory....so maybe it's time to put some hatchery Kings in there so the sport people have something.
2. Number one is reactive of course but what we need from the ADF+G is pro active and I'm talking about the starting to wobble Silver Salmon sport fishery in August and September. If this is all the sport guys are going to have in the future act now to get the science in order and a plan to actually implement the Coho management plan that says " cohoes will be managed primarily for sport use ". and this is how....
3. Come up with strategies to stop the commercial season and deliver silvers to the stream as early as possible with still allowing for commercial sockeye harvest.
4. Count the damn things just like they do all of the commercially managed fish. Set and achieve escapement goals.
5. create in river seasonal limits on Silvers. I've preached that for years after seeing the local harvest patterns.
6. Get enforcement on the river and have it open to boating / fishing only during daylight hours.
7. In other words ADF+G, lets try and avoid losing the wonderful Kenai Silver fishery like we have the Kenai Kings, Clam Gulch Razor Clams , Cook Inlet Dungeness , Kachemak Bay shrimp .... need more examples... ?
So me and MPeasy gave it a good college try of one full year in Hamilton Montana...So we're dragging up and have purchased a house in Helena, we've gone full circle. There's a lot of reasons but the biggest is that this house in HamBone is just to small, we want our kids and our friends to visit and the house is awkwardly small. The house on the upper west side of Helena has a guest room and a wing with a private bathroom for them, you . Then there's the fishing. Although I'm getting used to towing I want to be closer to the big lakes in Central Montana that interest me more than the smaller alpine lakes here. I guess I new it wasn't working so good when a waitress told my friend Roberto that nobody fishes ' that lake ' because theres no fish in it . The 3rd part is that we could have built an addition or turned one of our out building into a guest house but it made mores sense to just get a different house and then return this house to a rental so we have some income to go with our outcome....so that's the story. We'll start moving 1st of September and hopefully be in by the 15th or so.....wish us luck....
This is one thing we'll miss.....fresh local cherries for 2 bucks a pound, oh baby they're good. Then we have the famous Dixon Melons that we'll have to find a source for and then the Hutterite Melons and Chickens and then the local Huckleberries and .....did I mention those lakes have great, and I mean great Walleye Fishing ? Gonna get me a guide, ask all the important questions as I pay attention and this time next year we'll be showing blood sport pictures on Mile 14 just like the old days.
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