It was a very poor year for Chum across the entire coast and we felt the effects of that. On the other hand, it was a banner year for Chinook. Our second best on record!

  Our August Coho returns have remained a reasonably reliable indicator of the what we can expect back for the year.  

  Over time our Chinook run has been trending earlier with its migration, mostly in September rather than October.

  Here’s a look at our hatchery Chinook releases offset with Lang creek returns 4 years later. Though we don’t control what happens in the ocean, the trendlines show that our production correlates with successful average returns over time.