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The last few years, before any proposed reductions in hatchery plants, the winter run hatchery fish in the Cowlitz have been nosediving, haven't they?
They been noise diving for two reasons only!

1) NMFS came in a couple of years ago and demanded a huge cut in hatchery production of winter run steelhead to protect a fish that doesn't even exist!
2) Because of NMFS listing, early winter steelhead mitigation has been shifted over the "late" timing run and added to the summer run production so that it wouldn't interfere with the fake late run that they are now trying to develop. If NMSF would have keeps its nose out, the Cowlitz winter runs would still be pretty damn good!

I can sure see why PLF took NMFS to court! Maybe we should be doing the same! The Cowlitz Hatcheries were doing just fine, until NMFS stepped in and screwed everything up with their so called "science".

It's nothing more then a joke, and the joke is on us!
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Cowlitzfisherman

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????