Cohoangler,

Thanks for the reply!

My questions were deliberately done in that fashion to get WDFW to give us an answer that we can understand and take to the courts! As you can see, WDFW has cleverly already side-stepped the issue about handing off a rod to somebody else that doesn't have a line in the water (second question) i.e. "If 2 fishermen were both fishing, and both parties had their fishing rods with their lines in the water, could "they let" "someone else" (that means neither of them) pick up their rod in bring in the fish. This is a pretty simple question, and deserves a simple answer! It doesn't matter if there were 20 fishermen with their rods and lines in the water fishing. The point was, could you let someone else bring in a fish that was hooked on your rod? I did not say that the "other" person was also fishing, or had a line in the water. I just asked, could they hand off a FISH that THAT WAS HOOKED on YOUR ROD TO SOMEONE ELSE?

No real answer yet to that part of the question.

There are more questionable answers in WDFW reply. Has anybody else seen them yet?

Come on Andy, you got an eye for this kind of stuff, what else do you see?

Cowlitzfisherman,

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????