Hey Canada Guy,

Do you personally set your seasons up there in B.C.? Well, here in Wa, State, we have a commission that sets seasons. So you can get off your high horse

The VAST majority of the anglers on this BB would love to see a statewide C&R regulation in place on native steelhead. Unfortunately, the WDFW and some of our brethren around the state don't see it that way. They believe we should keep C&K regs in place until a run is depressed enough to close the season completely.

If you think you can change the seasons here in Washington to reflect your own personal feelings on the matter, then be my guest. Otherwise you can point that finger from north of the border at somebody else.

Your points about lumping tribal members together as one homogeneous people is correct, there are bad apples in every barrel. But if you think I'm going to listen to you say I can't complain about the netting going on in the Chehalis system right now because "my" WDFW Commission deemed C&K seasons appropriate, then you, sir, are mistaken.

I don't like the C&K seasons on wild steelhead and I like the commercial sale of wild steelhead even less, and I'll complain about both practices on this BB, to my elected officials, to the WDFW, and to the fish jockeys at Pike Place any time I feel like it because that's my right as an American. If it bothers you that much to read, then why not make life easy on yourself and stop reading it?

Fish on..........