WoW What a thread...

I speak in absolutes because i believe in cutting through the BS..

For instance it's BS to say that because the tribes can kill wild fish that sport anglers should be able to... Who gets the very last one???

We have to have clean hands ourselves before we can even begin to ask the tribes for anything!! Otherwise we are being hypocritical...

in the winter on 1998-99 the Skagit had a return on over 11 thousand wild winter steelhead. now MSY says the river is supposed to have 6000???? Where is the science there????

WSC is right on decisions need to be based on science not politics... MSY is a political decision not a biological one...

while WDFW offered this ruling they stand ready to give commercial netters on the Columbia a huge impact allotment , close to 10% according to yesterdays newspaper, on wild winter steelhead in the lower columbia..
A local WDFW biologist says that an impact of 7% is enough to cause the extinction of wild winter runs on at least one river in Southwest Washington..

As for careing about sport fishing. I care on about sport fishing on every level imaginable.
It is my life everything in my life revolves around fishing.. There is nothing eles in my life PERIOD. I have no other hobbies or interests. I have no friends who are not also fishing buddies. My job is dependent on the future of sport fishing. Everything in my life without exception has directly to do with sport fishing..

here is a fact that is OBVIOUS to every other group of sportfishermen in the world!.... Healthy populations of self sustaining species are critical to the future of the sport...

Therefore whatever is good for wild fish is good for sport fishing... This regulation is great for wild steelhead and is therefore good for sport fishing..