Jack, you would be surprised how many folks get seen in front of the judge in town of Richland. It seems as if their court is much more able to handle the cases. Town of Albion is much less sustained. I wonder if that's why less tickets seem to get written in Altmar/Albion. Town of Richland includes Pulaski which is also an easier target with closer access points to the water.

Only saw dead fish again this week end......

No hook ups at all bear!?!? Only dead fish??? Not good!!!

Not even a bite....
Only fish I even heard of anyone getting were two guys who were "self admittedly" snagging, they had 4 on saturday.

Have ben out for the last week on the local ditch.  Fish that I have seen have been darkies that overwintered in the deep holes downstream, have heard reports of a couple chromers, but not what I would expect to see with over a week of high water.  Numbers have been low  also.  Not seeing many lifters, mainly bobber fishers.  If the bright fish don't show soon, they are not coming to play this spring!

Bright fish did show in the salmon once the lower ended thawed out. I missed them when I suspected they were in p- town as I was busy as usual. Of course a few days later A lot of chrome fish were getting caught in Altmar. But just like the large pod that came in the fall;they weren't feeding/biting normally. And now 2-3 weeks have gone by and they are all mostly dead. They really took a beating 1-2 weeks ago when they started getting up to altmar.

I'm gonna take a ride to the hatchery later today. With the gradual consistent thaw from the sun and intermittent warm ups there "SHOULD" be substantial numbers in beaver dam brook. We will see. If there's still ice cover on the banks with little to no fish I will give it another week and check

DEC did not show any concern with this affecting their egg take for this spring.  They said they were on track for egg take.  Of course, they dismissed the " bad run" last fall talk as they had all the fish they could handle.  I think a lot of guys only know to look in the notches, and since maybe the fish were running at night and holding in the holes during the day, they did not see fish. And of course everything was 3 weeks late last year.  But when TB and I were there in October, there were salmon all over the place where we were fishing.  Always going to be as lot of question marks around these years.

Lucky you and two Bob lucked out big time with your outting last fall.

Didn't make it to hatchery. Gonna try today. And yes the hatchery can make its quota with a small percentage of return fish. That's obvious. But I know how many fish "should" be prevalent in beaver dam and raceway. So even if they get their quota, "I" will be concerned if " I " don't see what "I" usually see in the beaver and raceways this spring. It will be a few years of 4-6 pound average fish :(

Kings made it to the hatchery as usual last year- even with so very few to be found early in the river.
An early  trip to the hatchery produced a surprise with very many in the runway into the closed hatchery and in the brook. They were spawning in the brook and the fish were a good mix of both old and fresh arrivals.
They did run hard at night with favorable water levels and enough certainly made it in.
That said the king run stunk big time- and not just comparing the 2 years prior.
Beds in the river were sketchy at best in favored spawning areas and in some a King sighting was a surprise now and then instead of a regular thing.
Heck numbers of deads in the river didn't even start showing till real late.
Except for a couple of decent pushes mid season they were few and far between.
Those who were fortunate enough to be there at the few 'right times' likely saw little difference in the run.
Been going up for well over 30 years and around a lot in the past 8 to 10 and this was a VERY light year for them IMHO.
Should note I fish Kings often from  mid August till early December and except for the aforementioned 'pushes' they were relatively scarce.
Think its likely that we didn't notice the thiamine thing in Kings so much in the river as so many are kept and deads are normal.