12/13/2023




Well, must be a person that assumes all the netting is done from gillnet boats!!!

I remember days in the distance past, watching Humptulips gillnet fishers set their nets. The net was set so that one end of the net was right on/next to bank and that the outside buoy was just inside the major current line. Most of the nets were set down river from a point of land "up river", that forced the majority of water outside the buoy line.

I waited until the tribal member "picked the fish"....yea there was some small crap in the cork line but many times the net was "jammed", with fish. The higher the volume of water flow, the closer to the bank the fish travel.

To this day 99.9% of my fishing is where I can't/don't have to, view either a gill net or a set net being used. I dislike netting that much.... Grrrrrrrr to all nets, used in all rivers!!!!!!