Poor Rogue River fall salmon & summer/fall steelhead num

[Langenbeck]

Interesting article in the local Grants Pass paper tonight entitled: "Fish Runs on the Rogue River Floundering". Fall chinook over Gold Ray are 3,984 and 88% of the run is done so the final count should be 4,527 fish. The ten year average is 11,244.

On summer steelhead the count over Gold Ray is 4,687 and 51.2% of the run is done so the final count should be 9,154. The ten year average is 12,947.

So it looks like we will end up with 40.3% of the ten year average for fall chinooks and 70.7% of the summer/fall steelhead ten year average.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.kiene.com/gallery/albums/Steelhead-Salmon/Rogue_10_07_052.sized.jpg

Quite a few people have been up to the Rogue River in the past few weeks.

I guess this is not a "big year" but it's fishing OK from some.

Terry Thomas said he averaged about one fish per day last week.

Water was 42 degrees which is pretty cold.