This is the time of the year the folks from Fish and Wildlife review the steelhead returns, determine the number of hatchery versus wild fish we are getting to our local streams, and start the process of making decisions on which streams will be open to fishing and when. Normally, this is a painful process. Sometimes the decisions are based on the difference of just a few fish. Somehow I don’t thing that will be a problem this year. Unless there is a serious lack of wild fish we are probably going to see early and long seasons on all our area rivers. I will be visiting with the folks that have to crunch the numbers and try to get their best guess very soon, and I’ll share what I can from what I learn. In the meantime there is a note on my calendar of something I didn’t want to forget. That is the opening of the month-long fall trout season at Jameson Lake. Each year the lake is open to fishing for the month of October, and I made a note because this year could be one of the best fall seasons, for big fish, on James on in quite some time. I don’t want to miss it.