micropterus101,

I have to say, you were the only one who really "gets it"!

Almost everyone else is still stuck in their own little world of closed minds. Why is everyone so stuck on the "Bolt decision"? That decision did not say that we had NO rights to fish or hunt…or did it? If it did, what is the exact "quote" that says we have no "right" TO FISH? Maybe I am missing something here, but if we had "no rights", wouldn't the tribes then have 100% of all the rights, and be the "only ones" that could be hunting or fishing in our state? Where are some of you guy's logic coming from? Wouldn't we be buying our hunting and fishing license from them if we had no rights" to fish?

Logic would tell me; that the "Supreme Court" could not give any "special rights" to any one party. But they (the court) could and have given away "equal rights"! Maybe I am wrong, but isn't that what's happen in the Bolt decision?

To me, 50% of the state fishery; means we do have a "right" to at least haft of the allowable take; and it's not just a privilege either that we won. It's actually a right to harvest our half of the states harvestable resources…right? We didn't get all of the pie, but we did about get 50% of it...right? So now we have to "share our harvest"; does that now make it a privilege instead of a right?

What if I go fishing in another state that has no tribes in it? Is that also a "privilege" or is it my right to do that? What would happen if one last member of a recognized tribe dies and there was no other full blooded (or what ever the blood line requirements are) members left? Do we then revert back to "right" because the Bolt decision would no longer apply there?

How about all the other none game fish species? Please explain how your logic works on the Crappie, Northern- Pikeminnow, Peamouth Chub, Perch, Suckers, Sunfish, Catfish, Bull frogs and "other bottom fish"? We have NO limits on them do we? So explain how the tribes have anymore rights to harvest them then you or I do. How do you split the 50% with them when there are no limits? I can't believe how closed mind some of you people really get some times. You can apply this same logic to hunting rights too!

So it sure appears to me that we have every "right" to harvest all that we want to of the above species, and we don't have share them or split them with the tribes….right?


Finally, (and that's hard for me to say) the only reason that we are being told and brainwashed into believing that fishing and hunting is a "Privilege" and not a "right" is; the blood sucking bureaucrats have figured out a endless way to keep funding their bureaucratic money eating jobs!

Ok, I am ready now to hear that good old bureaucratic logic again!

Iam taking "Finnetrocks advise: Going fishing, relax a little, ...whatever it takes.


Cowlitzfisherman