H20
I know that we do not agree or see eye to eye on many issues, and that's OK. But I just don't understand your logic on this one. I was under the impression that a "Poll" was used to get a general feeling of how our registered members feel about a subject, issue, or topic.

On this Poll, that was all that was done! The people who wanted to reply did so, and the people who did not want to reply also did so. Now if they didn't like or agree with the poll, they had every opportunity in the world to write their opposing comments below my Poll thread , be it good or bad. Dogfish did the correct thing and I attempted to answer his comments.

It's really no different here then when you or I go to vote each time in our general elections! Every year there are millions of registered voters. Do all of them vote? You know what the answer is. But what really counts is that the ones who did take the time to vote did so, and their votes are really the only ones that are counted! It really doesn't matter if you liked the person, or issue at the ballot. All that matters is the votes that are caste. Like I said, if they didn't like the poll, they could have written a "write in" as comments which is very similar to our voting Ballot.

Frankly, I was surprised at the amount of members who did take the time to cast their votes. I am also impressed that so many members did caste the votes in the direction that they did, and I think that was a tremendous complement to our board. They (the members) knew the difference between a true wild fish, and a make believe wild fish. One bad "make believe" "wild" fish should not be allowed to ruin the true recovery of our real "wild" fish! I truly believe that once our members were given the opportunity to sort through the facts, they quickly realized the fiascos that are currently being attempted on the Cowlitz and its fishery.


Enough people realized the poll was NOT about pro or con of wild or hatchery fish. Since even "Salmo G" pretty much agreed that there were no "true" wild steelhead left in the Cowlitz, the issue of "wild" becomes moot.

Clearly the poll has shown how the people who fish the Cowlitz wants the Cowlitz to be managed! I don't hear any of the people who voted asking me to cancel their votes . . .do you?

Besides, I don't have monopoly on writing a poll! Anyone can do so if they can live with the results. There's old saying; "If you don't want to know the answer . . . don’t ask the question"!


Cowlitzfisherman