Just a reminder:

A personal letter is equal to 1,000 votes to a politician. An email is easier but not nearly as effective..It is this kind of communication that we really need to accomplish. It is tough to find the time for some but boy is it effective.

The sports fishing community has simply got to unite around the issue of commercial bias in this state. I personally feel bad for some of the old timers who have a long family history of commercial fishing and I wish there was enough fish for them to continue but there simply is not.

Catch and release is the future of sports fishing. You cannot successfully release fish from nets and expect them to live. Even the admitted mortality is WAY UP THERE for the netters. Now they are asking for an exemption to be allowed a mortality level 3TIMES what they had to start with.

ARE YOU ALL LISTENING? It is the mortality issue that you shoud key on here. The state already knows that sports fishing brings in more money to the state and they already know that we hate commerical fishing...they don't so you get nowhere with that argument.
What can make them look really foolish and biased though is pointing to the extremely high mortality of ESA fish. How can they argue? All that can happen is that they are exposed for being irresponsible.

We need every one to take the time to write a letter to your politician and to the commission. Hopefully some of you can show up in Olympia tomorrow. I would be there in the front row if it weren't for the boat show.