H20.... and what kinda cheese do you prefer with that? Get a grip son...I for one lobby personally WDFW staff constantly for needed changes or need not to change and many others here on this board also put in the effort and time .

Now for the subject we are discussing. Dan sorry I should have known you were referring to the recent regulation changes. The reason they can restrict boats from above 7400 is that it can reasonably be called a conservation measure. Allowing boat traffic of any kind across the primary spawning beds would be detrimental....side note I personally hate to see them allow any winter fishing up there but oh well thats an entirely nother subject. The issues below 7400 are user group related and not by any reasonable means conservation related. If you or anyone have really read all my posts on this subject here and in other threads you'll see my primary concern is once you start down this path of divvying up the rivers amongst user groups simply where does it stop? How about making Blue Creek a bankie only area....or how about lets have parity amongst all the user groups based on percentages of the whole? Hmmm jets get 10%...drifties get 20%...and 70% for bankies. Hey sounds like a good road to go down...especially as I'm a bankie!

Todd many of those lake prohibitions are likely similar to what you see with state/private land owner nonmotorized hunting areas. Pass Lake in Deception Pass State Park is an example....WDFW has made an agreement with a property owner or manager.

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