You guys keep using the term "Meat Fisherman" as if it is a bad word. What's wrong with wanting to put meat in the freezer? I love to eat Steelhead and Salmon, so when I want to "harvest" fish, I go wear the fish are. Also, you guys seem to imply that those of us who enjoy harvesting fish are somehow inferior when it comes to our fishing skills. How is it that you come to that assumption? Do you actually think when you step into a "Combat fishery" that you are the only "real" fisherman there? I love hiking small streams, and I love the "Chase", and "Communing" with nature and all of that touchy feely crap, but when I'm ready to pull out the stops and catch a whole bunch of fish, I head to wear the fish are stacked up..... Usually that means that there will be a lot of other people there too. Yes, I love to catch fish, and I like to take them home and eat them. Does that make me a "Meat fisherman" maybe it does. If that's the case, then here's one "meat Fisherman" who only has four punches left on his Steelhead card, (Yes, they are all Summer runs) and will bet his bottom dollar that he could, would, and will outfish all you snobby *******s any day of the week.... Oh, by the way, I fished right next to Bill Herzog a few years back..... At Blue Creek! It was shoulder to shoulder fishing, with guys standing on the bank waiting for a spot to open up so they could fish. Mr. Herzog hooked one fish after another, and by all appearences was having the time of his life. He also, took two fish home with him. Does that make Bill Herzog a "Meat Fisherman"? Perhaps some of you guys out there who have everything about the "right" way of fishing could be so kind as to take Bill aside and teach him how to fish.