This, the year 2012, was slated to be the year of the salmon in Northern California. The ocean surveys of last winter predicted huge numbers of salmon returning to the Sacramento Valley rivers as well as the Klamath/Trinity system. We saw good numbers of returning fish in August and September but not up to expectations. The last best chance for the big numbers was the full moon on Sept. 29. Salmon tend to move out of the salt and into the rivers on the big tides associated with full moons and new moons. The full moon of September did not …