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You're right. I bought a fishing license each of the last two years and did one day last and nothing so far this. In WA. In the future I will probably buy a one day for the days I decide to go. The Old Fart FW license, which is what I get, is damn c
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All righty then Rich, Salmo, and Carcass, you guys go first, and we’ll see how this goes. History shows itz always tuff on the first wave of righteous rebellion...
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Is There Life Beyond Fishing?
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Originally Posted By: I'm Still RichGthat is probably a good thing as our dogs and cats are suffering from the same medical conditions that we are... They probably think it’s just a coincidence.
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The really neat thing is WDFW tayjrt easy to defund. Don't buy licenses, don't buy the various vanity license plates, hunt and fish elsewhere so they get DJ/PR. Don't even have to convince your local legislator; it's in our hands.
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Salmo,, now you are talking... We should not be paying any attention to WDFW or the state for that matter,, we should do what we want... Run our own hatcheries,, fish where and when we want... We don't really have to obey state laws if we don't want
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WDFW has the option and flexibility to move money around many of its programs and functions. It is the deliberate choice of Susewind to close a steelhead hatchery and not fund monitoring of the Skagit steelhead fishery. Instead, WDFW is letting us
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Steelheader's can't catch a break! My god ! Pile it on! https://nwsportsmanmag.com/state-budget-cuts-will-affect-washington-fishing-hatchery-production/
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Puget Sound was a Salmon/Steelhead/trout factory prior to 1870... Indians had killed off all the brown bears 10 thousand years earlier... Imagine how big those bears were,, way bigger than Kodiak bears or plains bears,,, mass food year round and
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Our rivers in Washington have the potential to support salmon/steelhead/trout runs 12 months of the year,, much better river conditions than Alaska... Imagine what it was like prior to 1870? I bet there were so many fish that the whole of puget sou
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Carcassman,, Natural abundance,, carrying capacity means,, especially for pinks,, sockey and chum that there are so many fish they are digging up each others reds to spawn,, that they are pushing each other out onto the bank while moving upstream...
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The numbers of pinks we get, only ever other year, are really nowhere near what is needed. Researchers have seen pretty good results with 0.6 Kg of spawners per square metre of stream. The benefit climbed steeply to about 1.9 and then the benefits s
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Sounds like my place and the little creek running through ! “ fish can no longer make it up... So most of the habitat is not being used... Farmers and private land owners yousto clean out the creek and the fish could make it all the way to the h
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that is probably a good thing as our dogs and cats are suffering from the same medical conditions that we are...
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You know another problem is the creeks are full of [Bleeeeep!] these days and the fish cannot get above the obstacles.. For instance the creek I live on,, we have not had Coho or Cutthroat for about 5 years,,, the valley below me is now full of beave
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The pink runs state wide the past 10 yrs have been over the top! You would think stream nutrient delivery would be at it's peak. Repeat spawners should be available more than ever inside Puget Sound, with all the closures. Predators must be the smok
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https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/two-dead-third-person-missing-in-boating-accident/ Sad. Prayers extended to families. Wonder where it happened? Tree across? Toilet bowl? The Bogy is considered one of the easier floats and the water is still
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While I won't belittle the ocean mortality issue I think a bigger one is that steelhead have very poor R/S for survival to first time spawners, I have never seen a compete data set (count escapement, age for all adults) where the R/S even averaged 1
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