I just read an ifish.net post in the"Spring Chinook at Bonneville" thread about a sturgeon guide leaving carcasses all over the boat ramp and it made me wonder what some of your opinions are on "Angler ethics"
I'm talking about things done by bank or boat anglers that may be legal but in your mind is unethical or sportsmanlike. I was watching a news report tonight about the sea lions that follow the salmon up the Columbia river all the way to the Bonneville dam. They talked to several bank fishermen and at the end of the report they showed the netting of a native spring Chinook. The net appeared to be the standard type of net with regular mesh net material. The fish was released and swam away briskly and appeared unharmed. Should it have been netted at all?
How about buying salmon eggs that came from from tribal gill-netted fish? or using a bait-diver when the majority of fish present will be natives and there is a danger of a deeply hooked fish? Just wondering what you guys think.
Stew

[ 04-04-2001: Message edited by: Steelhead Stew ]