I would not support a year round bait ban, however I would be in favor of a bait ban from April through August .

Most of us here are in favor of state wide CnR on wild fish, but when it comes to not using bait on summer fish , which are sometimes the easiest to catch without bait , we would not give that right to fish bait up. Why is that?

Bait does by far the most damage by fishermen to out migrating smolts than most catch and kill fisheries have on returning adults .

Think about it, if your out fishing bait on a given summer day and you hook and kill incidently a few to half dozen wild smolt that are in the 4 inch plus range (which once they are that large have a much higher chance of ocean survival ) what kind af damage does that do to the population over the course of a summer ?

Most of us here would never do anything to hurt an adult wild steelhead , but what damage are we doing to runs of juvenile steelhead by fishing bait?