It has come to my attention that many on this board do not like to make minor sacrifices...it seems to me that they love to ***** about the other factors effecting the survival of our wild salmonids but can never look in the mirror!

I have over the past few months pointed out a couple minor things that we as fishermen can do to limit our impact.

Surprised, I faced strong resistence and at the same time I did recieve a good amount of support as well.

Yes yes...the vast majority on this board release wild steelhead. Right on! I do commend you (and I am not being sarcastic) but that is something that is very easy to do as, IMO, winter steelhead taste like crap!

But when it comes to wild kings and wild coho, we cant help but kill them if it is legal!

When it comes to something as minor as not holding up an ESA listed chinook salmon for a photo, some people can not help themselves!...and then turn around and give me a hard time for pointing that out.

Some even come up with assonine excuses such as "Well if we can not stop (enter negative imapct here) then why should I do my part?"

We (many agreed with me) are not asking you to stop fishing, we are not asking you to change your gear etc. etc. We are just asking you to leave those poor fish in the water...

Hell...I love to see here photos of dead hatchery springers from the Columbia...it makes me very jealous and gets me salivating as everyone knows that Columbia River spring chinook are orgasmic when BBQed!

I faced even stronger resistence when I brought up the fact that we should eliminate the use of stinger hooks in the summer to protect wild steelhead juvenilles. Much of this resistence came from those who know the harm that the stinger do!

Again, I am not asking you to stop fishing, I am not asking you to stop fishing from your sled and I am even willing to compromise...fish bait but dont fish stingers...

So what gives???...What are you willing to do??...aside from releasing wild steelhead.