Young-of-the-year abundance is a key predictor of adult fish populations in future years. We were particularly interested in the results of this year's analysis as we continue to look at the unusual river conditions in 2005.

He died of a breaking heart," Pete said, making a stout log fence of his hands around the glove compartment and leaning forward to peer at the luminous clock, "but he was an old man. He was the king of his Yaquis down there and he couldn't live any more when they took the land away. He couldn't live up in the mountains that way. He hid all the treasures - you understand treasures? - in the mountains down there and he died. Now I'm the king of my Yaquis and someday I'll go down there and dig up the treasures again - maybe soon if they don't catch me too much. Then I buy the land back and we will live in the future like in the past only better." Pete let the fence fall, and sunlight showed the clock to be hours wrong, if not years.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

I don't really foresee me in the near future going anywhere else and playing. I didn't tell a lot of people, but it was a pretty bad injury. I'm still recovering from it.

Over the last four years, the Commission has been making a concerted effort to improve the attractiveness of trout fishing programs for anglers. Streamlining the stocking schedule and producing the entire listing earlier in the year is a part of that effort.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.