Now how in the world could that be?

Robs thinks that Rich is right. Well, let's see if RICH thinks like Robs thinks!

Lets just look at a little bit of RICH's history on this board! What do you think? Are the double R's Siamese Twins? You be the judge:

Posted by RICH G on 07-02-2002 06:04 PM
"How many fish do you harvest oriented anglers need anyways to sustain your need to kill and eat fish.I myself combineing salmon, steelhead, trout and all species of bottom fish on avarage kill maybe 20 to 25 fish a year tops. My family of 3 eats fish about once a week and eat fish I catch about 95% of the time."

Posted by RICH G on 05-18-2003 01:14 PM

"Dont join WT because you support the harvest of our wild fish to extinction so we can have 10 hatcheries on each river so we can comercial harvest and sport harvest till we are sick of it. Thats about the only reason I can see"

Posted by RICH G on 07-02-2002 05:11 PM

"Me too Im sick of harvest ,harvest, harvest!!!!!!!
If harvest is all people care about than our wild fish are truely doomed. Just food for thought. For the most part hatcherys arnt even here for sport harvest instead for tribes and comercials. If for only sport harvest there would be no such thing as a hatchery. If it wasnt for greed in the first place on all sides there would be no reason for hatcherys. Another thing, I know of many small coastal streams that have had all the same problems as everywhere else accept hatcherys. All the other problems such as logging, habitat degration, polution. But yet they have quite robust wild fish runs accept for a component of a steelhead run in one small river where hatchery steelhead have been introduced. The component of wild steelhead that came at the same time as the hatchery fish have now almost disapeared."

Posted 07-02-2002 10:18 AM

"I think the two major factors that have caused our wild fish numbers to decline are #1 hatchery's #2 over harvest. #2 has been caused by #1. And #1 has done a lot more damage than just causing #2. I say shut em down if it will help the wild ones come back.

Too many people are only concerned about loosing oportunity. Whenever we we have issues like closeing hatchery's or having bait bans people come uncorked. The problem with our society is that too many people are only concerned about what they feel they should have or be entitled to, and that dosent stop with fisherman. People are worried that closing a hatchery may stop them from being able to to kill some hatchery fish or stop them from fishing at all. People are worried that a bait ban on certian rivers might cause them to catch fewer fish or make them start fishing a new way. People dont care that these measures are in best intrest of the fish they only care about loosing oportunity." There are only a few that really give a S##T, and are willing to make sacrifices to ensure the wild ones live on"

Posted by RICH G on 6-12-2002 08:26 PM

"Where did everybody go while I was gone? There isnt anybody here anymore. Was there a bad arguement or disagreement? Where did half the BB go?"

Posted 4-10-2003 04:07 PM

"Just dropped in to say high. Havent had much time for the computer lately but soon Ill be back. Ill have to get my steelie fix some way. No fishing for me lately. Im starting to scout some things out over here but it looks like ill have to go into Idaho and Montana to get into anything good in moving water anything cole anyways. Not much for decent river trout fishing nearby in washington from what I have heard"
Posted by RICH G on 03-10-2003 11:07 AM
Im going to work for the city of Newport as the police of course."

Posted by RICH G on 3/09/03

"Ill be leaving the west side of the mountians soon for an undetermined time Newport Washington is the destination. Its a small town north of Spokane on the Idaho boarder. If anybody knows of any good rivers in the Idaho Panhandle or in Northeast Washington for some nice trouts give me some info. Looks like ill be picking up the 4 and 5 weight full time for a while"

Posted by RICH G on 2/18/03

"Although I like getting nice photos and handle fish with extreem care I would be in favor of such rules and sacrifice my oportunity to get the glory shots. Most people dont know how to handle fish and some dont care If it saves some fish id be for it."

Well, is it a join or not?


Cowlitzfisherman