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Originally posted by Bruce Pearson:
Steelhead are tougher than you think (quote stolen from smalma), I am not a hungover college student working for minimum wage and I am not an idiot. smile

I don't blame the folks out on the OP for being a little upset about some of the recent events that have taken place. A couple of the latest rulings supported by many members here and passed by the commission are a double whammy for them.

There are 4000 members here on this board, of those 4000 members probably only a small percentage are actually active members and of those active members a good percentage probably support the latest rulings. There are 385,979 licensed anglers in the State of WA most of which probably will think twice before heading to the OP this year. The small percentage of active members here do not reflect the views of the 385,979 anglers in WA. I know a LOT of anglers and most of them have said that they will either be cancelling their OP trip or just not going this year.
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the vast majoroity of anglers in this state(OVER 90 + %) WERE NEVER GOING to fish the OP this year anyway.
Even if your figures were correct we're still talking about roughly 40,000 anglers.