Sorry guys, I usually try not to take any kinda political stance on anything, especially over the web when it comes to fishing. It is my business and I try to stand by the rule I was taught a long time ago by another veteran guide, "No Negatives!" but this ones got me a little torqued.

I read the previous posts on this while over on the Olympic Peninsula a week or so ago and frankly the lynch mob mentality of many that posted outraged me.

Over 90% of you that posted on the situation are not local to the area and haven't even seen what was done first hand other than pictures and what you've read or heard. You are quick to condemn someone for something you really know nothing about.

"JUDGE NOT LEST THEE BE JUDGED"

I personally witnessed how the October floods up here absolutely devastated the local community, people & property, and that those 100+ CFS flows on the Sauk alone put the fear for life in many.

Take a walk in another man's shoes for a moment : Now you're a local up here and live riverside with 100+ CFS flows pounding yer property and home, you know personally many that have lost their homes to the river and lives that have been destroyed...and you know nothing about fisheries and spawning habitat, ect. You also feel strongly that local and federal Govt doesn't really give a crap about you and the local community. Do you try and save your property and way of life; the only life you know?

The subject on trial by you here was just trying to protect the only life he knows. Rather than condemn the local comunity why not try and educate them?

I did float the upper Sauk yesterday and saw the burm first hand. Yes, part of it does run through a small section of an old side channel of the Sauk and yes, maybe a few redds were damaged perhaps even destroyed.

Much of the local community up here already distrusts outsiders & the Govt. This kind of persecution can only divide anglers and the community further.