Does this suggestion have anything thing to do with the new rule that you can't take a wild salmon or steelhead out of the water?

I don't know all the rules about ocean fishing, so I am not sure if that rule applies to the area that these charter boats fish. It would appear to me that the charter boats people are worried about how they must deal with this new rule. I may be wrong, so can you answer this question?

Since descaling occurs more in salt then in fresh, it would appear to me that people are concerned that they will be required to do the same in salt as they are in fresh to protect endanger wild fish.

It seems to me, that most saltwater commercial and ocean going boats are very high sided because of how they are made to deal with the conditions they are used in. I would think that it would also mean that you would have cut off everyone's leader to release a wild fish when your 4 or 5 feet above the water surface. That could mean that you would have lots of wild fish swimming around with 4 or 5 feet of mono hang behind them.


Got any answer?


Cowlitzfisherman