This test fishery looks to be a total waste of money. I heard from some folks that are close to the Region 6 staff that work under James Losee is that he hasn't even put together a study design or developed an analysis of what kind of questions they are trying to answer or how they will use the data. Instead he thought this would be a good idea, went out to hire these anglers and now will figure out what they want to do with the data. I don't know if that is true, but if so, it seems like ass backwards way to approach things. I'm no scientist, so if someone else has thoughts on this, I'm all ears.

I wonder if the money used for this program could have been spent instead to creel and monitor the Skook or Nooch or Satsop. I sure thought at those town halls they were talking about opening those rivers up and bringing in some extra creel staff so we could catch the damn fish we pay for.

But instead they want to go pay guides to float WDFW staff down the river.

Another notch in the belt of incompetent management we get in Region 6 under the Losee regime.