Cowfish, I totally understand what you're saying and I applaud your activizm when it comes to issues you feel are unjust. Look, it's like this, if you feel something is unjust, you have a few options on how to handle it: #1) You can just follow the rules and ***** about how badly you're getting screwed.... I think that this is what the majority of sportsmen do, and its what I used to do in the past. #2) You can become an activist and try to get involved in how laws and policies are made..... This is what people like Cowlitzfisherman and the board members who are very active with the Wild Steelhead Coalition, friends of the Cowlitz, Trout Unlimited, etc. are doing..... It's probably the "right" way of doing things, but I feel that ultimately it's not very effective. #3) Just do what you want, live by your own moral code, let that be your regulation book, not some written set of game regs, and if your list of personal rules happens to conflict with the state's rules, then so be it..... This is what I choose to do. I'll bonk an unclipped silver on the Cowlitz now and again, and I'll keep foul hooked fish from time to time. If a river shuts down to sport fishing, but the tribes are still netting it, and if I think I can get away with it, I'll continue to fish it. Someday I'm gonna get caught, and I'll pay the price, maybe then my opinion will change. For right now though, I'm gonna continue to do it my own way, I refuse to miss out on my right to fish and hunt just because our fish and game is run by idiots.