2018 Deep Inlet Schedule
The 2018 Deep Inlet Schedule was finalized at the spring NSRAA Board of Directors meeting. The schedule will begin a month earlier this season to provide Troll opportunity from early May through mid-June. Seine openings (24-hr) will be occur on May 1, June 3, and June 10 during this period. Gillnet openings (12-hr) will be May 2, June 9 and June 16. The May 1-2 openings are set to meet the 2:1 Seine: Gillnet ratio requirement for May. Chum management will begin on Sunday, June 17. Seiners will fish Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday each week. Trollers fish on Monday, and Gillnetters on...
Read MoreDeep Inlet tops 350,000 Chum Catch for all Gear
Deep Inlet keeps chugging along providing the best catches for June and early July since 2000. SSRAA sampled the District 4 seine fishery on July 7th and found 30% of the chum catch was Medvejie origin. Several percent was Hidden Falls as well. You can track the return here.
Read MoreHidden Falls & Deep Inlet Update
Good catches at Hidden Falls on Sunday, estimated at 250,000 plus or minus 25,000 chum. We’ll hone the estimate by mid afternoon today. Male proportion slipped to 45%, a dramatic change from Thursday. Multiply samples were taken to confirm the sex ratio. This strongly suggests we are at the mid point of the Hidden Falls return. Average size was 6.8 lb in last night’s sample. We will begin collecting broodstock in Kasnyku Bay this morning if we see the opportunity. F/V Reality, John Curry and F/V Voyager, Sven Stroosma are the designated broodstock collection boats for now....
Read MoreDeep Inlet & Hidden Falls Seine Update
Good catches at both Deep Inlet and Hidden Falls on Sunday, current estimate of 45,000 and 74,000 respectively. Deep Inlet was a bit of a surprise to some. Gillnet fishing sounds slow so far today at Deep Inlet. Hot and sunny, and the fish are stalled outside the THA. Deep Inlet – Sixteen boats fished Deep Inlet on Sunday. We are still processing samples so don’t have sex ratio and age class yet, but there seem to be lots of small fish, possibly early 3 year olds. Similar to Hidden Falls’ early catches, the catch of 45,000 at Deep Inlet is the largest catch for stat week 26...
Read MoreHidden Falls Second Opening, Deep Inlet mention
Impressive second opening with an estimated 72,000 chum caught, making the weekly total 107,000 chum. This is the largest return for Hidden Falls through week 25 except for 2001 when we had the inordinately large 5 year old return. In 2001, the run eventually fizzled out due in part to low 4 year old return component (1.58 million all age class return). This year it appears the age class is not skewed like it was in 2001. Certainly good news so far, but the run could just be early and within forecast range (the pessimists view), or it could be larger than expected (for optimists) which we...
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