You heard me right Cowlitzfisherman.
Yes I think its wrong to kill any of the wild species of salmon or trout. Why? Because you cant tell the difference between wild and true natives. Its a copout to kill a wild fish because it might be a wild fish from hatchery spawning. its a bad excuse to kill a wild fish just because you whant to bonk something.

Another thing. I dont care what WDFW says about any of our rivers being heathly. The truth is that that none of them are. There is not enough historical data avialable to know what any of our rivers are capible of produceing and that is the truth. It is easy to see that our rivers are not produceing anything near thier potential.

If you go up north you will see rivers with much harsher conditions produceing 50 times the fish. How do you explain that?

I bet you would say nutrients.

Think back 100 years ago when our rivers had the nutreints that the rivers in Alaska had. But other than the nutreints they had much more: 12 months of milder conditions to produce fish and more potential for bug life for juvenile salmon and trout to eat.

Our resident trout have all but dissapeard unlike Alaska but yet we have better conditions for them.

We only have Dollies in Glacier rivers here and in only sparce numbers. In alaska they are like a desiese in every river and stream and roadside ditch just as the salmon. When was the last time you saw salmon in a ditch along side the road here because ther was no more red space in the main river or stream?

I rest my case our rivers are sick all of them.