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[Wiseguy]

I saw on Facebook that 272 anglers registered for the Derby. With 9 fish weighed in that's a success rate of about 3%. Does that indicate a better return than the previous dismal years? Water conditions were pretty good compared some previous blow outs. Maybe that had more to do with it.

That number doesn’t include the wilds that were caught and released.

[RalphH]

That number doesn’t include the wilds that were caught and released.

well obviously and what that number is, can't be determined.

[ribolovac02]

I saw on Facebook that 272 anglers registered for the Derby. With 9 fish weighed in that's a success rate of about 3%. Does that indicate a better return than the previous dismal years? Water conditions were pretty good compared some previous blow outs. Maybe that had more to do with it.

Now just take into equation that 10 percent of guys actually catch 90 percent of the fish and there is the real number

[RalphH]

I think the question was does 9 fish weighed in for the Boxing Day Deby indicate a good early return or a recovery of the early run segment? If you look at the Wally Hally weigh in list you might get more support considering more fish were weighed in on the 24th and possibly with fewer anglers on the river. It looks even better compared to last year. Still it dropped off after the 24th/25th suggesting, maybe the numbers on the 26th was from a bump of fish and not indicative of  any sort of 'significant recovery'.

[MetalAndFeathers]

This years winter run is doing well coast wide. If you fish steelhead yearly on multiple rivers it’s obvious some years are better than others, such as the low summer run in 2021 and the good summer run in 2022. “Recovery” would be seeing consistency year after year which the vedder hasn’t shown in the last few derbies.

[RalphH]

talked to a person in a tackle shop today. They said they fished the Vedder a lot right around christmas. Fishing was good & had landed a number. All were hatchery fish. Not a single wild fish. Ditto for fish seen taken by other anglers and for people they had talked with. Fishing was likely good because there had been rain but the river didn't blow out thanks to the low freezing level. Now with the dry cool weather, the river is low and fishing is not so good.

There you go 1st class 2nd hand info and you all heard it first! 

[roeman]

talked to a person in a tackle shop today. They said they fished the Vedder a lot right around christmas. Fishing was good & had landed a number. All were hatchery fish. Not a single wild fish. Ditto for fish seen taken by other anglers and for people they had talked with. Fishing was likely good because there had been rain but the river didn't blow out thanks to the low freezing level. Now with the dry cool weather, the river is low and fishing is not so good.

There you go 1st class 2nd hand info and you all heard it first! 

Well obviously. Good water conditions typically means good fishing.