Jim E.

You may be right about the Governor in Washington. Thanks for that opinion. ... But use the search feature on the upper BB page and plug in Slade Gorton. I know you are a conservative, but the threads about Slade will be eye openers for you, and show how damging his run as senator was to fish and sportfishing. His voting record toward big businesses that harmed fish habitat was atrocious. We know you publicly advocate hatchery steelhead over native steelhead, at least on your home NF Nehalen River, but you should note that surveys indicated a majority of Washington anglers support going to release all wild steelhead regs, as is the case in Oregon. I believe Senator Patty Murry came down on the side of C&R regs state wide to protect wild runs of native steelhead.

RT

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