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[clarki]

WCVI has several runs of "even year" Pink runs.  Not so much on the Fraser system.
Ralph will know the history better than I, that said, I believe the Fraser system even-year Pink run died out as a result of the 1914 Hell's Gate slide.

If you do catch a Pink in the Fraser Valley, carefully release it as seed for an even-year run on this side of the Strait.

From my understanding, it’s not clearly understood why many rivers have even/odd year split cycles.

If Hell’s Gate were the reason for the lack of an even year pink run, that doesn’t explain why the Squamish, or the Skagit, or the Indian (among others) also have no even year run or why there’s no even year run in the lower Fraser below Hope in waters unaffected by the slide.

[RalphH]

WCVI has several runs of "even year" Pink runs.  Not so much on the Fraser system.
Ralph will know the history better than I, that said, I believe the Fraser system even-year Pink run died out as a result of the 1914 Hell's Gate slide.

If you do catch a Pink in the Fraser Valley, carefully release it as seed for an even-year run on this side of the Strait.

AFAIK and have read the south coast, as in south of Courtney has few or even no returns of pinks in even numbered years. The Squamish and the Mamquam in particular has a few. They show up seldom in the Fraser River test catches and at that it may be just 1 or 2. Ralph Wahl, an angler & author in Washing state recorded seeing returns of a few dozen in a backwater of the Skagit he fished decades ago. These disappeared within a decade or so. See his book "One Man's steelhead Shangri La."

No one knows why this is so but best I know even numbered runs were not known in the Fraser at any time in living and recorded memory. Prehistoric slides (such as the Agassiz slide circa 6000 BCE) or the Mount Mazama  (Crater Lake) eruption have been offered as causes with little or no supporting evidence.

FWIW from Courtney north pinks tend to have a dominate year (usually the even year) and a sub-dominant year. Some watersheds have fairly strong sub-dominate years other have minor ones or even marginal ones

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[wildmanyeah]

On a positive note looks like it’s gonna be one of the better chum years we have seen in the last decade.

[Fish Assassin]

On a positive note looks like it’s gonna be one of the better chum years we have seen in the last decade.

We could use some good news for a change

[RalphH]

Maybe we need a "are the chum here yet" topic. No doubt they are! From which phase of the run do the chum taste the best? When there is nothing else to fish for, at least there will be chum this year.

[yoh]

I have been spotting a lot of very early chum all month in various streams. The PSC test fishing numbers also paint a very good picture. Hopefully we will have a good season after all, despite the very dry September.