So what are the odds we will have a salmon season this year?

With April getting closer, and water levels really not hitting record highs, what are the odds we will have  a season this year?  I know some of you have heard rumbling at higher levels any words you care to share with the unwashed masses?

were gonna get pretty much a full season.

  Couple weeks ago that skipper's wife in the charter office at HMB told me that F&G is actually going to want us to catch lots of the fish. I didn't understand the logic but it did have something to do with the low rivers. How do they know it won't rain alot next fall?

Have you seen the water levels in Folsom now? And there is snow in the mountains.  I don't understand this drought. It's March and we have fresh snow and still more rain forecasted.

And SoCal has full lakes, and the aqueduct has water in it.

there is $$$ to be made in a crisis! Gotta have something to save us from They are not gonna let go of this cash cow anytime soon The snow pack looks white and flufy, but, it is like frosting on a cake. There will be little run off due to LOW water content. rivers are already slowing up here and run off creeks are drying up. Conserve, observe and Fight the Delta Tunnels!!!!!

I think, if anything, the drought will affect the runs a few years from now. I heard some of the Sacramento spawning beds were exposed to air when they had to reduce the outflow from Lake Shasta. They should have done that before the fish spawned.

If you think there is anywhere close to anything up there, you must not have been up in the mountains. There's almost nothing. Like really almost nothing. Anything that is south facing is nearly bare, and has been so for most of the year. Even north facing slopes only have a foot or so even up to around 9k. Now I've only spent time along the Mt Rose, Watson, hwy 50 side, but it looks f'in dire.

We lucked out in Marin with a 13" drenching in that one storm, but even that just barely squeeks us by.

The forecasts I've been looking at seem to show that this might be it for the season.....