AuntyM....Sorry Rob's wrath has jumped from me to you but he appears to need help. Seems like some viewpoints held by Rob and Ramon and many others on this board are so absolute in their minds that anyone opposing them must be an idiot, a liar, a snagger, a bonker, or whatever ...I am trying to understand this thinking: " I think you are a big fat liar and an idiot so don't ever say anything about what I say ever again!!!" What? HUH?

The thing is that when people attack and attack and attack and spew out their "facts" trying to refute your position and you stick to your opnions and restate them over and over again they give up and call you names and then take their ball and walk out of the game.

By the way I don't remember Washington Trout working on the net ban...I did but then WT was not on my radar screen. WT worked with Puget Sound Anglers in the past but once they started down their radical and extreme road I think PSA parted company or visa versa. I am pretty sure WT would be against any type of net as it is a tool for harvest. They may have gotten sucked into the tangle net idea at first and then threatened to sue...but they probably found out that the tribes would be too formidable a foe so they went after WDFW instead and ultimately struck pay dirt with a big fat cash reward .

I suspect that most fishing organizations are against gill nets. I know PSA is, and is also against commercial harvest of steelhead. Personally I am not against commercial fishing but I am against gill nets. I'd like to see trollers off the coast only with no commercial netting inside anywhere...especially on the rivers. I'd like to see the tribes fish "in kind" with everyone else as I think the treaty writers intended instead of being in charge of the fisheries as they are now.