yak2you2
2008-08-02 02:35:19
Any word when the closure is likely to be?? or for how long??
Salty
2008-08-02 06:10:03
Around the 10th for four or five days. Then 3-5 days to conk kings. Then another month to conk big, high value coho! Have fun ;) :D :D
yak2you2
2008-08-02 13:16:30
I sure hope your right about the Cohos. Nothing, NOTHING, up this a-way. fished till noon today, rolled 2 kings and a bomber, went home. Grim is the word. Time to lay low for a couple weeks I guess. Thanks for the info.
son of a dog salmon
2008-08-03 00:30:20
Hmm. I called ADFG SE Regional Office in Juneau Fri afternoon Aug 1 and asked to speak to someone about the troll fishery. The fellow I spoke with said they will do a 2d coho assessment early this coming week, and then issue a news release later that week, about the closure. He said that the closure would probably be sometime the third week of August -- Aug 19 is a Sunday.
Salty
2008-08-03 13:46:09
The troll biologist lives in Petersburg. The assistant troll biologist lives in Sitka. The SE Commercial Fisheries Director lives in Sitka. Who could you talk to in Juneau who knows anything about trolling? I would love to know that person and add her or his name to my list of contacts.
There is a coho research biologist who knows something about coho but is not a manager.
I would love the summer season to go to the 19th as our chum trolling in Eastern Channel does not get corked by cost recovery until the day before the re-opening of the troll season.
Salty
2008-08-05 13:38:04
Could be but it hasn't happened that late in years. Us chummers would love it later as cost recovery can't come cork us till the day before it reopens.
son of a dog salmon
2008-08-05 20:10:12
Sorry to create some confusion with my first post, I was just chiming in with what I heard on the phone. I called ADFG Petersburg yesterday and they said that the release will come out tomorrow [Wed] or Thur, saying the closure begins midnight Sunday Aug 10. I didn't ask for how long it will be closed; it will re-open for kings. Salty you were right - the guy I first spoke with in Juneau actually manages the seine and gillnet fisheries -- he said the Petersburg or Sitka biologist would know more, or know the right story.