Thanks for the reply Smalma ... I agree with you that this somewhat of an endless cycle of discussion, but you bring out one very important point that illustrates the state of management revolving more around harvest ops than anything else:

The wild chinook runs of the Quillayute. For a number of years now, I (as well as a number of other local anglers) have been pounding on Bill Freymund in Montesano about the health of the king stocks. Bill told me several years ago that there was some concern about that stock. I suggested then and have since a reg the daily limit to one and a season limit of five much like we fish under in AK.

Yet, here we are several years later and despite closures of other rivers to the south (the Hump being the primary one) that have forced increased pressure elsewhere ... we've seen no reduction in the bag limit on these fish. In addition, the state has "allowed" the Quillayutes to keep a 5 day a week fishery on these fish with no pressure to cut back. On top of all of this, there remains a coastal fishery as well ...

With 30,000 or so hatchery silvers returning to the Sol Duc, it seems that appeasing the meat anglers could be easily taken care of by an increased bag limit on the hatchery silvers and either cut way back or C/R completely the kings. But NO ...

Another example of fishing them out before we take action ... when will it end??

Looks like I'll have to have more proposals in the works for the next round of meetings ...