WDFW’s use of the North of Falcon salmon-season-setting process to quietly and permanently close a pair of Forks-area wild steelhead systems to fishing in April is generating a lot of pushback as public comment on the matter wraps up later today.

Spring Chinook anglers will be able to fish a short stretch of the Wenatchee River at Leavenworth near the mouth of Icicle Creek for hatchery kings starting Friday, June 9.