I hope and pray that washington can go C/R on wild fish. It is the only way that the fisheries will ever have any chance of being anything close to what they once were. It is one of the best management tools available to us for restoring and maintaining world class fisheries. It has worked repeatedly in numours locations throughout the country.

I am fortunate to have several trophy trout lakes to chose from. The ones with the largest trophies are all restricted rules and harvest. We get to catch those fish over and over and over. 40 and 50 fish days are not uncommon on rainbows averageing 3-5 lb. and some as large as 10. In a float tube on a 6wt rod on dries not much better cept maybe summerrun. Restrictions are 1 fish over 20" barbless artifcial lures. It is a great fishery because it is restricted.

With Stealhead a restriction of C/R is reasonable.

As for the nets, there is nothing to be gained by using that issue as an excuse. It is not going to change or go away in the forseeable future so get over it and move on to something that we can control.

I was really pleased to see RT's post about the mortality study in Or. Solid scientific data that we should all be familiar with so we can defend our pasttime in a rational manner.

Also SS never said anything about killing a nate in his original post. He just wanted to know where he could go for one that he could bonk. The Cowlitz comes to mind to me.

One last thing. I would be willing to wager that Washington has more prostitutes than Nevada legal or not.

Just my 2 cents worth

Desertdog

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