If you think that wdfw cares if you buy a license or not you are woefully mistaken. Getting enough people to get on board with this is a lost cause. Of course it will mean that a few won't be on the water, but that just makes more room for the rest of us. Work for election reforms or not, but changing the current situation by not fishing locally is a losing strategy, and what makes you think going to Alaska or British Columbia is an answer? Because their salmon and steelhead situation ain't much better. A guide there may or may not put you on fish, but that doesn't tell you much about how they are dealing with fewer fish as a general rule. I try to do what I can, I attend the adviser's meeting for the areas I fish and provide input, learn lots I didn't know, meet other fisherfolk in my area, and attend the "dog and pony shows" that wdfw and the commission put on. These are more frustrating, but given the option of not saying anything other then on social media at least i have given it a chance to work. Bob R