It was an interesting day!! I took the day and drove over with my boat to show some support. I was joined by Ron " aka Fishnut " and two other members of our PSA Sno-King chapter. We also met up with another rig, Our Pres Grandpa and Treasurer "Slabquest", and a couple other members that where making a difference. To set the story straight, I was lucky to have my wife’s rig to make the trip more comfortable, and had a boat in tow for the parade through town. We had signs showing our cause and where basically driving with the others through PT and from the slim crowd, we had the support of most everyone. As we approached a bakery on one side with a lady waving and cheering for us the other side had a bar with about 5-7 men standing in front of it. As we passed by Fishnut waved to them and they in return spit towards us. I don’t believe they where trying to hit us, if they where my 10 years old daughter could have taught them something about a hucking a luggie it was pathetic and not just the act of doing it. At the time i thought they where showing us what they thought about our cause. I later heard that they through rock at J.D. Wade while he was taking pictures of our convoy and through candy back at the convoy that was giving as a thank you. Fishnut and I later joked about the fact that if we stopped the rig and confronted them with all the other supporters that had been organized for the crabbing, that we would have kicked their butts, but we would have lost all that we had worked for in credibility. Instead by what did ignoring them and showing our force 181,000 Washington recreational crabbers vs. 250 commercial crabbers we have a great advantage, if get better organized and work together to use our number in persons and economics we will get what we deserve, our fair share. I was a little disappointed at the turn out, I saw a lot more that made the effort to fight opening day madness of crabbing than I saw go out to make it so there isn’t a need to kill your selves or any one else because it has been so long since we have been able to crab. We need to be willing to put some effort into supporting our fisheries and not just use them, We get the raw end of the deal so many time and we don’t do anything about. Its time that we start and make a difference. The PSA is a great way, there are also other groups. Join one and see. PSA is in most parts of western Washington, find a chapter in your area and check it out. Hats off to the PT chapter they are a class group and I look forward to working with them again.

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