I was sent this email today by someone who didn't want to have his name attached to it ... I think you'll all be able to figure out how I feel about it myself, but I'll post it for the gentleman:

"I would like you to maybe show this to all that have comments about catch and release.

Day in and out, every year fisherman and women argue about keeping and letting go our native fish. Ask yourself this question, where did the eggs come from to start the hatchery fish? If our native conservationists are netting the rivers 5-7 days a week, what's the escapement there. Most people don't realize nets kill both fish coming in and fish returning. A drift net stretched 2/3rds the way across the river kills more fish then I would ever have the chance too fishing 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. If it is legal, let a guy take a fish home to eat. That was the general reason most of us were taught to fish. We need to stop fighting about wild or hatchery fish, which ones to keep and let go and start banning together to get all the fish back. Any guide that has been around here for some time and the old timers can tell you that since the Natives began fishing the rivers commercially everything has disappeared. If we do not pull our heads out of our a!! and shut down this fishing in our rivers you will never see a return. It should be regulated more closely and since we pay for that fish that the Indians are netting we should have some say in how our rivers are fished. Why do most of the guides go to Alaska or Canada? They still have fish and can still make a buck or two doing what most of us wish we could be doing.

My whole point in this is why do we continue to argue among ourselves. Why are the loggers getting blamed, the farmers, private land owners, when as I write this some guy is running a net and sweeping more of our resources right from under your nose. You are too busy worrying about some guy taking a fish home to feed his family or to smoke one to send to a relative. I am really surprised in this day of lawsuits and suing each other that there is not a lawyer whole loves to fish out there not suing the federal government or bureau of Indian affairs about discrimination and unfair rights granted to certain parties. Read the treaty's of your local tribes, I have and I cannot seem to find anything about monofilament lines, spotlights, outboard motors and other such modern pieces of equipment. Wake up people, nets are killing the fish, what little we have left needs to be protected. Spend more time looking around you on the river next time and see how many beaver and muskrats you see. Oh yeah nets kill them as well. Ask the Canadian's how they feel. They still have a voice and plan on keeping it that way so they can keep fishing.

Keep your eyes open, report illegal activities and band together. Who cares if someone keeps a fish to eat or not. Its the ones who waste it, and the mismanagement we need to focus on. Ban together and we can change things. Fight between us and things will remain as our natives like them.

I get fired up when I read about idiots bashing other fishermen for wanting to keep a fish. That was the whole reason most of us were taught to fish. Maybe to be able to feed a family. These are the same idiots that shut down tackle shops and the reason guides give up.

I would prefer my name not be put out for all, as our Natives may not like my comments and I would not like to deal with that mess."