Hawk,

I know you said you didn't want to get in the debate about netting but it's impossible to leave out. I'm posting this message under the assumption that the rivers you fished near Lake Superior did not have the heavy netting that goes on here. I guarantee that your rivers would not have recovered like they did with nearly non stop netting. Imagine a river that has 81 nets near its mouth for several days a week. That is a regular situation here in Washington.