Originally Posted By: elparquito
Originally Posted By: Reefskunk
By the way, I heard that next year we’ll only be allowed to row drift boats upstream.


DIbs on the front seat!!!!!!

Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02
This just makes everyone else fish the way I've been doing it for years.


Oh, well this makes it all better. Fish the way FleaFlicker02 has been fishing for years. Problem solved!

Man, I hope you don't fish like sh!T. It's bad enough that I have to fish the way you've been doing it for your years now, but if you're only hooking 1 or so steelhead a year, because you suck..... FML!

rofl

Anyone care to tell me why these new regulations are going in to effect on the 14th?

I thought this was all to protect the wild fish. How many wild fish are in the coastal systems now? Not many.

Only thing this regulation is doing now is screwing over those trying to get one of Sthdr1's chamber creek brats. Ok, not really screwing over because one really can't get screwed over with a brat/turd/banana.

Why not put these regs in to effect...oh I dunno, say Jan 1?

Evo - the walk-in tribal guides are already packed in to places like Cook Crick and the Salmon. It's already stupidly crowded and I don't see that increasing or changing. It's always going to be stupid crowded on those rivers and this regulation won't effect that.

As for the Quinault, it's generally only fishable if and when the lake doesn't turn over and puke out the river. It's never a flow issue. Back when I used to fish it, the lake would stop turning over around late Feb and the river would be fished from March-April for the most part. There isn't going to be big push of new tribal guides that can boat that river.

I wouldn't expect any more guides on the Queets either.


In fairness to the closure, it completely contradicts the concept of removing as many hatchery turds as you can from the system to prevent spawning with natives. But then again, if you are forced to fish from the bank do the harvest numbers really drop much? I'd say yes, if pressure drops and less people choose to go fishing.

Is this just a Covert Covid operation to reduce the spread of the illness on the rivers? rofl

Keith
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