Michael,

It appears for the most part, we are arguing the same point. It is not that politicians are ambivalent to fish management issues, it is that the majority are old school wack em and stack em types. It only takes a few of them in key comittees and WSR becomes a pipe dream. Don't think that they are all uninformed though. There is a current ban on the banning of bait in this state simply because one of the bait companies greased the skids of the legislature some years back.

As for your ponderings about various types of rivers: hatchery only, mixed and wild only, I think you are dead on. I fear we are coming to that sooner than later. It might be the only thing we can do to save some wild stocks.

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