Trouter I am glad someone picked up on this.. Hopefully the bait ban will be lifted it is a complete screw up on the part of the region 5 office and the comission. This regulation was absolutely NOT NOT NOT suggested by any local conservation groups. This is a WDFW screw up. One of many i might add.
What was proposed by local conservation groups was a clouure of so called "trout" fishing. What was happening was lot's of people weretargeting steelhead smolts as trout. The intent was to eliminate this "trout" fisihng. Our proposals were not submitted to the comission ( for some "unknown" reason) and when we raised a vioce about it WDFW staff came up with a bait ban on the East Lewis and the elimination of the spring closure..

This was done by WDFW NOT conservation groups!!!!!
It is absoltely not supported by Clark Skamania Flyfishers..