I said it in the prior thread and I will say it again!!...I am beyond appauled at the number of people that will head over and fish the Quinault, Lower Queets, Cook Cr. and the Salmon.

The same people that will cry foul about the netting of our rivers, the same people that will portray sportsmen that harvest wild steelhead as uneducated rednecks...will go over to the Res numerous times a winter because they feel they need to catch large numbers of fish and/or very large steelhead.

You are nothing more then hypocrits...it is easy for most of us to release wild steelhead and it very easy to cry foul when a fellow fisherman kills a wild steelhead and it is even easier to ***** and moan and complain about the Indians and the netting of OUR rivers, but you will not stand behind your words and NOT fish those rivers!!

All it would take would be a boycott by the sportsmen of this state...stand up and let them know you will not book a trip with a particular guide if they associate themselves with tribal netting and ESPECIALLY if they plaster their net caught fish on their website...I tend to think Letty does it for two reasons...to sell trips and to piss us off!!

There is much more money to be made in guiding then netting fish and if the Quinaults could properly market such a sport fishery, build a nice lodge etc. etc. etc., I guarente you, they would be sitting very pretty and would never think about netting again!

Secondly, 4Salt in the previous thread, said that a dead wild steelhead is a dead wild steelhead...that is the truth!! But I can assure you that the fish of the Quinault and ESPECIALLY the Queets would be much better off, if netting was stopped and nothing buy a heavily promoted sport fishery took place on those two rivers.

Do you really think those dead wild steelhead caught in the nets on the Queets would have all been caught and bonked over the head???...Not a chance in Hell!!!

It is amazing how blinded we sportsmen become we when must choose between fishing and the fish!!!!...sort of like how so many of you will not support a summer time bait ban on the Skykomish, eventhough you know it will benefit the fish!