I agree with IHOOKEM. You'd do well to be carefull what you wish for..... I'd personally be just fine with similar boating restrictions being placed on even more of our rivers. If you want to float from hole to hole, then fine, I do it all the time on smaller rivers and streams, but the "no fishing from the boat" rule serves to put a damper on the conflict between bankies and boat fishermen.... Also, it serves to cut down on added pressure to some of these smaller rivers. Hell, the only reason some of these smaller rivers are worth a damn, is because they have float restrctions, no put ins or take outs, and very, very, limited public access. If you took one of these small rivers, I don't know, we can use the Willapa, since that's what this thread is about...... The Willapa river doesn't even get 250 Steelhead back to the Hatchery in an average year, so you take this small river and you make all of it and make it accessable to the public, opening up all the private lands and taking away any float restrictions. What do you think that's going to do to this or any small river? Take a look at any public access area on any river in this state...... They're Sh!t holes! Trash everywhere! Hell, keep these smaller rivers off limits to as many people as we can, that's what I say! I'll put my time in, get to know the land owners so that I can fish their lands, the who tell me "No" will just have to deal with me using the loopholes in the property laws to access their lands. I probably wouldn't feel quite this way if I hadn't seen first hand what happens when the general public catches on to a small river and how people will absolutely Sh!t all over the resource, keeping Native Fish, littering, cutting fences, etc. I;m sorry Cowfish, but I gotta disagree with you on this one...... Not every river in this state needs to be turned into another Cowlitz.