Monty,
I reread your post a couple of times and still came away with the same impression. To summarize it you are saying that c&r folks would do the right thing if necessary and stop fishing to improve runs but the bonkers wouldn't. Seems pretty clear by what you wrote. That implies that somehow c&r folks care more about the resource and bonkers will continue to bonk until there are no fish left. Your next post seems to backtrack somewhat.

Quote: "I can't find in any of my posts where I said "my use is OK and yours is not". I simply stated I would give up some of my uses to help the problem."

First Monty, I didn't claim to quote you on that. Simply paraphrase your point.

Second, you stated more than that. You went on to say those who choose to harvest fish occasionally wouldn't do the same thing if necessary. To that I say B.S. THAT is where you appear to me to climb up on your high horse and look down on c&k fishermen. I would venture to say that virtually all of those fishermen would do the same as you if they truly believed it was needed. Just because they disagree with you about harvest of wild fish where legal doesn't mean they don't care about the resource. Your post certainly implies otherwise. I think the majority of c&k anglers simply assume that Fisheries is doing their job and if they say a harvest is O.K. then it must be O.K. I personally don't agree with that but I think many people do. If I'm right about that then it seems to me they aren't the ones at fault and you shouldn't assume they don't care or wouldn't do what's needed to help the runs. Besides, has any of the constant complaining on this board about c&k done one bit of good to help the runs? I can't see where it has. Maybe a better approach is to stop dividing the sport fishermen into conflicting groups and work toward changing the laws that allow c&k if you are against it.

I stand by my first comments to you.