Ahhhhh yes...I dont check in for an entire day and look what happens!!..

My question for micro is now that you know rainbow trout and juvenille steelhead are the same animal...how do you feel about those mortality studies that totally show the damage bait does??

Secondly, Bob brings up a good point about stinger hooks...lets use the Skykomish as an example again.

With the river becoming literally a sled parade whenever the conditions allow a sled to be taken up and down the river, the use of these stinger hooks have become very prevelant.

The vast majority of these sledders freedrift with the typical double size 4 and size 12 cheater and gob of eggs...the very vast majority of smolts the take this rig are going to end up floaters, bleeders etc. etc.

If we can not agree on a bait ban for the Sky during the summer...the VERY LEAST you can do, IF YOU CARE ABOUT OUR WILD STEELHEAD, is to eliminate the use of stinger hooks!!...it is too obvious, too easy to not!

Being that Bob is a guide and must get his clients into fish, it would be in Bob's best intrest (in the short-term atleast) to run bait divers...but he doesnt, he forgoes a deadly technique (pun intended) to protect the fish.

As I said before...sacrifice a little now OR everything later!!!

BAN STINGER HOOKS!! ...I would love to hear the sledder crowd's opinion on this one!

...plus I seriously think we do need to look into how the Commision members are chosen...that will be a good topic!