Hey fishbreath I heard that he isn't going to retire he is taking a potion on the coast. I feel sorry for those guys out there. If he trys to screw with those rivers by closeing them to catch and release he will have one hell of a fight on his hands. Doug Huddle told us that redds can be coverd up in high water and are only vissable for a short period of time. So when that idot Pete told me that they flew 2 times one the North Fork and 1 time on the South Fork how can he say there are no redds. If someone calls Petey (thanks pimpinshrimp for that one) remind him that last Feb. at our T.U. meeting he told us to go to the state and ask for a longer season. I did this at the Vancouver meeting in Dec. with a pettition of over 200 signatures.The letter we gave to them was very well wrote thanks to our T.U. president Todd Rightmire, but we haven't even recived a call from the WDFW on the issue. Also if Petey says that it is hooking mortality tell him that Bob Leland (head guy for WDFW steelhead) told me that they don't even worry about it on Boldt desision rivers. I don't know about you guys but the Vedder is looking better and better every year.