Folks: To be clear, I wasn't advocating for emergency closures. I was expressing concern over the allegedly poor gillnet catches, the reason being I suspected (based on recently past travesties) that we might be shut down. Did we just not get the right report?

Either way, as someone who does almost all his fishing from the bank and in rivers, I am very much in favor of keeping the fishery open. Hell, extend it through January... I'll play!