Rob,

Please, please be careful with your opinions! Careful what you wish, ask for, or say WDFW should do. If WDFW used your MPE - maximum possible escapement - that would require no fishing by anybody, anywhere, with any gear type, at any time. Do you really know what you are saying? I appreciate the hell out of your passion, but when you describe your passion and love for fishing, and follow it with a "they should" that results in no steelhead fishing whatsoever, I gotta' wonder about you buddy. Please, think. Yeah, it's a little harder, but it's so very worth it.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.