Can 'ya blame the landowners??? I have never been down there during springer season but have seen the pictures...

It is widely known that salmon bring out the worst of people and the worst in them!

The springer fishery on the Wind in recent years has degraded the once mighty Wind to nothing but a meat fishery in the spring and a biological wasteland for the rest of the year.

When I was younger, I always dreamed of fishing for the fabeled early returning wild summer steelhead of the Wind after reading the works of Bradner, Raymond and McMillian!

Those fish are now gone. Their numbers have declined just as the number of spring chinook plants have skyrocketed!

Plus the pictures of the river that I have seen through the years are nothing like those I have seen recently that were taken in the past couple years.

Gone is the lightly fished river that was well taken care of and free of garbage. Now the canyon is filled with garbage, garbage and garbage and we have nobody to blame but ourselves!

I propose we close the Carson National Fish Hatchery and allow the Wind and its wild summer steelhead to try to return to their former greatness.