While I was up in Seattle last weekend we toured Pike Street Market. All 3 fish shops had Oly Pen Indian gillnetted native steelhead, purchased for around a dollar per pound, on sale for $4 per pound. The one I'm holding up in the pic was about a 20 pounder. Lots of them were big nates! I talked to the owner/managers of all 3 shops to make a case for boycotting the buying/selling of wild steelhead. They ONLY care about the large profit margin. Area fishers should organize a protest march with TV news cams present! If we can reduce the market for these nates the netting likely will be reduced some too.

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Other things up there are much more positive! We took a floatplane flightsee - below is a photo of member Jim fishing for blackmouth Kings in his Fish4Fun boat in south Elliot Bay (around 12:30 pm Saturday - unless someone has an identical looking boat like his out there - when I realized it was F4F right below our plane I got the camera out but by then had to shoot back at them).

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Seattle Center below. The colorful architecture at the foot of the Space Needle is the new Experience Music Project rock museum - a must see!

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And of course below is the Dog House (aka - Husky Stadium), where the upcoming 2002 scene of the 2 Oregon school's big victories will be . (Just teasin you Dawg hounds ).

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We also took the ferry over to tour the Kitsap Peninsula. Highly recomend it! I saw a blackmouth fishing hot spot looking north from the Boedel Reserve called Jefferson Head. I glassed a few boats for a bit with no bent rods/nets. Poulsbo has close access to fishing Hoods Canal; and a nice view of the Olympic Mountains from the town's upper road. Port Townsend has some of the best fishing access around Puget Sound, and great scenery! A short ride over to Vancouver Island too. - RT




[This message has been edited by Reel Truth (edited 03-30-2001).]