I should also add that I have personally talked with a few different anglers that have told me they have fished the Nooksack during March and April while it was closed. They were like the rest of us and just enjoyed C&R and had no interest in poaching fish, just catching em and letting them go. All of them have told me it's incredible fishing. I actually told Castle this and his remark was just that these were fishing holding in the deeper pockets before going on to the spawning gravel. Hum.......does that mean there's more fish than one red per mile that's spawning?