I'll jump in here, quickly, as I'm headed out the door.

First, fishing regulations are complicated enough as it is(and late to get printed). Your plan would be so confusing that most people couldn't abide by it it they tried.

Secondly, you can make all the rules you want, but if you don't provide ample supply of people to enforce them, they mean nothing. A lot of us hear pride ourselves on being the 'good guys', but if you start taking a head count of all the booger eating morons around during a day on the water you will quickly realize that we are the minority. I don't doubt for a second that more than one person on this board does not behave the way they act on here. Oh....my point. The only way you can possibly expect whatever rules are in place to be enforced is for the majority of the people fishing to know what they are. Making people who fish many, many streams have to read there regulations for ten minutes everyday before they grab their rod will mean that people won't read the regs.

The third point Cowlitz covered nicely. I will however add that MSH and MSY DO NOT WORK. It has been proven time and time again. The horse is not only dead, it has decayed into a small pile of very smelly, unrecognizable ****. Quit beating it, already.

Fourthly, if you are only going to allow 1 wild fish to be clubbed a year, what is the point of clubbing any of them? Back to my second point; if we are going to enforce the rules, it's up to us. Don't you think it would be infinitely easier to bust ol' buck tooth Bubba when he delivers the wood shampoo to a wild fish if everyone knew that ALL wild fish are to be released ALL the time? The only reason I can see people wanting to have open seasons on wild fish is to feed their ego, or impress their friends with a 16+ lb. catch. Just put the 38's on your pickup, and buy the pump out of that magazine already.

****, I'm late.

Sorry I don't agree, don't take it personal