WA fisher, stubborn aint'ya! Wow, you just don't get what the others are saying do ya? Baisically, they are saying that they feel that very few if any rivers, in their opinions, are healthy enough for any harvest. Just because the F&W people claim there to be ample fish for harvest and sustained runs doesn't mean that that is truly the case. Look at the puget sound rivers, open one day complete closures the next.
If you remove one trophy fish and the next guy removes one of his own and his buddy got one too...well you see where I'm going. It starts to add up. Nowdays, with the ever increasing population and fishing pressure the native fish runs are in certain perile if harvest is not curtailed in the future. You may not see the effect of your one trophy fish now but 10 years down the road when the closure sets in (again see puget sound rivers) I hope you take some pride when you point at the pig on your wall and think that you will never be able to fish his river again.
No, I'm not saying that all the people who legally kill a native fish are bad people it's their legal right, but is it really the best use of the resource?

Think about it,

Duke

PS:fiberglass replicas are nice too and you don't need to kill the nate to put him on the wall.