I am so siick of this!! Why is this state still using mininum esacpment numbers?? understand this is the MININUM number of fish required back to the river to sustain the population. and to top it off they make some wide ranging educated guess prior to the season to see if we might have just enough fish to open a season and maybe kill some.
then after all the fishing is done and all the fish are killed they go out to count the number of redds in the river and find out they overestimated the number of fish by a couple of thousand and now in three(or two or four) years there is no way we can have a season because they guessed wrong. and if it's a low water or a high water year (just what a normal water year is I've never heard or seen) that means more or less fish and seasons. maybe we should face the fact that there are more fisherpersons then there are fish and we can't all go kill a couple or even catch a couple every day. the least the state could do is set the numbers so high that if they are off by several thousand and it floods we can still fish