Eric, I think you missed John’s whole point. The last thing that the Puget Sound drainage guys want to do during March and April is to go to the coast.
We already have a great C&R fishery for trophy size fish right here! Something most of us cherish. WDFW is going to shut it down due to their perception of limited returns of adults.
Their data is better than ours but not that great. (Subject for another thread).
I think what John has proposed is two sided: one simply stated “don’t manage to extension the coastal fish like our Puget Sound fish have been.
The other is a call to arms of recreational fishers to get involved in the management of the resource.
If native/wild populations are spiraling down then selective harvest measures should have been implemented before we got to total clousers.

Want to do something about it?

GET INVOLVED!

Beezer