Actually Parker, I approached an employee of the WDFW about 2 1/2 years ago at one of those regulation proposal hearings and asked about the validity of a statewide single barbless hook regulation in rivers, streams etc.

His response was more or less "Don't even think about it...It'll never happen" so with that wonderful encourgement, I never sent in the proposal.

This year however, I proposed a single-barbless hook regulation and bait ban for the Sky during the summer-season to protect juvenille salmonids which are so very important to our future stocks. It was shot down.

Oh well...I will keep trying. Hmmmm...I can not help but wonder what Sparkey's Bill of 2006 will be?? Maybe if some of us can still not keep from putting hero shots before the fish, I should propose a camera ban. No fisherman may possess a camera within a 100 yards of a river that harbors wild steelhead.