Im with Jim on this one. Numbers dont mean jack. A guy that fishes in solitude will outfish a guy standing at the hatchery outlet any day. Fishings not about putting up numbers like football, its for our own enjoyment. I fish areas like reiter just enough to get a fish or two for the BBQ and the rest of the time spent hunting steelies in no mans land.

If getting rid of excess hatchery fish is the reason for lining, than why not give them to the indians in trade for not netting the lower stretches?????
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown