The excessive number of guides on certain rivers definitely isn’t helping. Not talking the Cowlitz, Skagit, Hoh, or maybe others; but when you’ve got a dozen guides hitting small rivers nearly 7 days a week, that’s a lot of molested fish, particularly in late March.

I’m not at all against guiding in general, but I think we’d all agree there are WAY more than some fisheries can handle.

They still kill FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR less fish than the nets though.