To respond partially about my being in the dark because I use the term F&G.... It's just a term. I am from Everett and live in Boise (I hope temporarily). I am well aware of the huge and expensive WDF&W hippocracy, er I mean Bureau-crazy, er.... you know what I mean. Believe me, 100% absolutely DOES NOT go to F&G unless you want to count the millions that are allocated to the highway division as part of the F&G responsibility to maintain the roads (for the fisherman and hunters.... Yeah right).
It is no better than our public school system. Millions upon millions are dumped into that system, and very little actually gets to the kids or their education. Same with F&G..... A very small percent gets to the fish. Oh, and Salmo forgot to mention that a very large chunk of F&G monies are lumped with Fed money to run the indian hatcheries also. A real oxy-moron statement often heard is "Tribal Run" hatcheries. They run them opinion wise (and with input from biologists), but the sportsman and taxpayer in general fund them.....

If it were not for the hatcheries, the tribes would be the only ones with them (eh, can you say "Treaty"?) and then we would be at their mercy to fish in "their" rivers... Very complicated stuff, but bottom line is that a huge portion of what we pay in fees is pissed away and wasted as it is in any other branch of our Gov't.....

So spend away! The fish depend on us....