Grays Harbor is a great place you can fish by boat and have a real shot at a 40+ pound king in the fall. I ran into Diana again yesterday of the Willipa Fishing Gang at the Seattle Sportsman show. She said they (non tribal commercials) are planning a 7 day a week netting down there. This will be for a total of 21 days. There might be small breaks in between. The Willipa Fishing Gang came to be strictly because of watching this happen down there. These were recreational fishermen that got fed up seeing this. They started the Gang to try to stop this. They went in North of Falcon Meetings last year and tried to play the game with a cool head. Getting hot headed with WDFW will basically get you blackballed from further info from them. They tried to get a Net Ban Zone. Last year they got it on the table. It was recognized but not accepted. This year a few of them are trying to go to every NOF meeting to keep it current, recognized and upfront. You have to keep this in front on every meeting to have it not get swept away. They make notees on how often this comes up at every meeting. They are asking for our help at the NOF first public meeting on March 20th at the WDFW Natural Resources Bldg Room 172 in Olympia. The phone number is 360-902-2700 for directions. The meeting starts at 9:00 am. The previous meetings were discussions. This meeting is where the rubber hits the road. They know the commercials are in force there. They would like to have some help. You need to stand up at the meeting and tell them you are in favor of banning the nets in this region. The more this comes up by different people, the better the chance it will become enfored. Please attend. We do not need to loose another one of our last coastal fishing frontiers to netting. There just aren't that many left. Willipa/ Grays Harbor was one of the bigger coastal runs. This opportunity is one we cannot loose. As sportsman we need to get involved. Please go to the meeting.
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Join the Puget Sound Anglers Sno-King Chapter. Meets second Thursday of every month at the SCS Center, 220 Railroad Ave. Edmonds, WA 98020 at 6:30pm Two buildings south of the Edmonds Ferry on the beach.