RT: it makes no sense to me either. My comment was to show goose that dispite what he may have found in RCW re WDFD scope of authority over the use of motors in rivers to look at the Kalama as an example of how they do control them through regs.

In Or. certain forms of motors are restricted once you leave tide water. In Wa many lakes are also controlled by either horsepower limits or the ban of a gas and in some lakes no motors at all.

So to say WDFD cannot by authority limit the use of motors does not reflect in actual practice.

On the Kalama, I feel that the use of an electric motor should be allowed as it does no harm and as many of us are getting older and some with diabilites. The use of an electric motor will help us continue to fish.

Several years ago, when the Kalama was closed to the taking of spring chinook. There were a few old timers who would slip down to their favorite hole, catch a few nooks and then return upstream via the help of an electric motor. The gamies were told of this practice repeatedly.

One morning they finally staked out the hole and the only ticket the guy in his late 70's got was for using his electric motor. Forget the fact that he had been keeping spring chinook but that morning he had no fish.

Giz....