Officer Bob overly with the wdfw Is trying to have a boundary line drawn from eladen gardens to the old wdfw access on the opposite side!
This will totally shut down all bank access on this terminal fishery for king salmon.
He said he was to late to suggest it for this year or something like that but he will get the proposal in for this years cycle.
Normally he would not spend so much time there writting tickets too snaggers. He would be out protecting native fish naturally spawning in rivers. But so many calls come to the office about gorst creek that he ends up having to spend the majority of his time there while native fish are getting hammered! So his solution is to close it and it will probably happen.

All that is going to succeed in doing is putting more snaggers in the rivers.


I suggested to him that the state raise penalties for snagging and open hoodsport and the gorst creek terminal fisheries to snagging just like they do in alaska for some terminal fisheries up there. That way he could spend more time protecting wild fish stocks without getting calls to protect fish that are just raised for sportsfishers and indians.

Yes snagging is unsporting and all that jazz but people do it and will continue too to the end of time. Why not have them do it somewhere they cant hurt anything. might mean alot less snagging going on in the rivers if the snaggers can do it legal somewhere else.