drifterWA-

I have to agree with you on the purchasing access areas and leases for access. I probably haven't fished the wynoochee as long as you, but I have been for close to 30 years. Access is definitely becoming a problem, but I'd like to see some of the fishing groups work on access issues as well. You'd be surprised (maybe not) how many landowners don't want anything to do with the state regardless of the purpose. I think if more fishing groups approached landowners in a non-threatening manner you'd get as much or more cooperation.

Sorry, but I assumed (wrongfully so) you were going down the road of wanting officers to write more litter tickets. On the issue of direct access to officers, the state patrol is direct access. State patrol radios officers of the call within minutes and in many cases seconds via state patrol radio. The hang up comes from officers being out of location or working higher priority calls. We only have a couple of officers that work this area and if they're on a higher priority such as public safety they won't respond immediately. I've called state patrol to report several snagging or poaching in progress situations and sometimes the officer is there in seconds and other times it takes hours. By the nature of their work they can't be everywhere at the same time.