Makes me sick this year to see so many sport anglers killing wild fish. Seems like most of us out there just dont care. Seems like 90% of the guys I talk to on the river have the catch and kill attitude, everything they catch they kill.

Im thinking about hanging up the towel and just quiting steelhead fishin all together. I dont know if I can take seeing this lack of respect any longer and dont want to be associated to theese meat heads. Every year the runs get smaller and smaller, and no steps are taken to change this. It wont be long untill the peninsula rivers are in the same boat as the sound rivers. Im sick of hearing that coastal rivers are healthy. No statement could be further from the truth.

If any of you remember what it was like 20 or even 15 years ago you know what Im talking about.

Imagine what the runs were like 100 years ago and compare that to today. Now can you say river systems like the Quileute and the Hoh are in healthy status?

I just took a look at the creel surveys by the fish checkers on the Quileute System rivers. 152 wild steelhead were kept and 64 were released this was between Dec-1 and Jan 21. This is greed and ignorance and not right. The wild steelhead runs anywhere are in no condition for any type of harvest. We as sport fisherman should take the first step and let everyone else follow. And if they dont then well at least we know we did our part.