Originally Posted By: RUNnGUN
"Oh, and the icing on the cake was in a memo to staff from WDFW Director Susewind last week announcing that because of agency budget woes, the "new" Skagit steelhead CNR season will be discontinued in 2020 due to the costs of ESA required monitoring."

Really?? I never saw any monitors on the trips I made this year. I asked for check details mid season and the response was none would be published. I even wonder if any monitoring went on at all! Sucks all over again!


Pretty sure that was just a petty punishment for our refusal to support license fee increases in the face of declining opportunity. Really, really $hitty thing to do, not only to the citizens who worked so hard to earn that fishery, but also to the Olympic Peninsula's wild steelhead runs, which will once again be forced to shoulder the impact of all the anglers who would otherwise be fishing the much closer Skagit and Sauk.

What a$$holes.