You guys are hillarious. Everytime I check the board, guys are ranting and raving about the Natives decimating runs, and how the evil Natives will be the end all of Wa streams.
Yet the sportys in your State still have a Wild steelhead kill! Get it together boys.... if Washington sportys cared so much about the fish(and I know some of you do), there would be no wild kill. The sport fisherman in your state have to get their own business in order first, and then lobby to have the nets removed. As long as there is a sport kill, you guys have no argument against the Natives that have a treaty right to harvest fish.

The Natives will always be an easy target to pick on, and their damage to the resource will always be overstated. The commercial harvest and open sea netting is the number 1 enemy of all sport fisherman. At least the in stream nets are somewhat selective(stream wise, not Hatch vs Wild).

I personally believe that the sport kill and the nets should be phased out. I also beleive that as long as the sport fisherman of WA State are killing wild Steelhead, they have no argument against the Indians. When you brand the Tribes as "they", or "you guys", and lump all NAtives into one group, remember that you yourself are also "they" and "you guys", as your lobby group is currently killing wild steelhead also.

Legalize It!
MWL