Arklier,

You can blame anyone YOU want. I'm personally pointing the finger at the director of the department running the show there. Same guy is screwing up the C. River and the Cowlitz too. The guy wants commercial fishing to get the lions share and is willing to play politics to get it done.

Seems like maybe the fish is rotting from the head down, and not from an initiative that the PEOPLE of WASHINGTON STATE passed. Yea, so Eyeman pushed an initaitve onto the ballot, BIG DEAL. The PEOPLE of WASHINGTON STATE passed the law by a majority vote, and the legislature has come back for more funds in various ways, gas tax increase and user fees come to mind.

If you think that Koenigs is doing a great job, go back to the library and read some history books. Pulleeeze!

Oh, and the libraries? Good God man, have you seen the Taj Mahal that is being built in downtown Seattle that is being called a library? No wonder that we can't can't afford to keep 'em open!

And why, oh why does the Lake W. fishery have to have an exact count of bonked fish? Where else in the state is that actually done? Extrapolation is used everywhere else to pull a number out of the sky that is used to measure sport impact. If it works for the C. River, Sekiu, Puget Sound and elsewhere, what's the difference on the lake?

Difference is the director is too chummy with the commercial fishing interests.

Arklier, no offense intended but I sure get tired of the Eyeman exuse. It's not the reason that the department can't get their act together.

God, I am putting my fire suit on right now....