Yesterdays thread did not belong on this bourd.I too went to it in hopes of seeing a plan to orginize the sport fishing industry together against the comercial nets.If there ever was a year in recent years wouldn"t it be this year to show the pro's of sport fishing on the economy?!
Being frustrated with the indians is inevitable.They continue to waggle there tounge's at the white man over the net issue.They sat out on the canal and netted our best silver runs in years and did they use the fish for anything but pure proffit,no.To take the silvers,which have struggled in the canal for years and strip the females and then dump the rest like a bunch of garbage is a slap in the face to all the people in the erea who have sacrifised so much for those runs.Property owners,the logging comunity, sport fisherman and the local economy have made the sacrifises and paid for the restoration of those runs.It hurt to see that done with the reward for those sacrifise's.
Bill Herzog wrote an arcticle on the demise of the hood canal and I wish I had it for referance now.His research if I remember right{help me out bill!}brought out on the table the ungodly damage the non tribal fisheries did all in the name of greed!The white man in my opinion,through non tribal netting, bad logging practices on the skoke drainage and damming the n. fork of the skoke,have done way more damage to the hood canal fisheries than the Skokes!If I were to point a finger of blame I would point it at the state not any body else.
Yesterdays thread had little to do with the facts in the issue and alot to due with hatred and frustration.As reasponsible sportsmen with a big cause infront of us we owe each other a more responsible attitude!
I personaly was threatened as a 10 year old boy fishing on the skoke by a couple of drunk natives,roughed up and told I was going to die if I did not get off there river.I still can not blame the afairs of the fisheries dept. on the Indians!