Smalma

Let me understand what I believe that I have heard you say! Are you saying; WE need the "commercial reports" first, before we can establish sport harvest numbers? If that is true, then what I hear you are saying is; we need the "commercial gill netters" to tell us what's "ahead" before we can have a sport harvest? Am I hearing you right? Don't you thing that this is "putting the carriage way, way ahead of the horse"? I know that YOU do not want that, but that appears to be the option that we would be left with!

75% or more, of our smaller streams that still carry "wild native stocks" of steelhead, do not have "dams" on them do they?

Estimating the number of escapement in Washington State is, and has been, a joke! How many rivers do you know of in Washington State, have established "escapements needs"?

I wish more others would "jump-in" and make an ATTEMPT to figure out how we can turn this mess around, but people will be people, and will be writing about this when we are asking ourselves; " Doomsday, what will we do when the last one is gone ????"

Cowlitzfisherman

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????