Your words as if they were Bob's

As a retired fishing guide, I fully understand why you, as a guide would love to see such a band in effect.

From a "guides" point of view, I can understand your desire to have catch and release on steelhead for several reason

so that is one more good reason for YOU to promote c&r.

From everything that I have read that Bob has posted about WSR the last 4 years I believe that his interest in WSR is that the WDFW's current management style does not promote healthy populations of steelhead. And of course no steelhead no fishing.

Now this I could and do support wild steelhead release in rivers that can not support harvest! But at the same time I do not support a "statewide blanket band" of all rivers just because a group of 100 or so fishermen think that it’s the right thing to do. If the statewide moratorium had been the wishes of the "many" instead the "wishes" of a hundred or so fishermen, you would not be hearing me now! IF this truly was the wishes of the MAJORITY of the sport fishermen, I wouldn't have a problem with wsr. But that is not the way that this was played out. Instead a group of about 100 or so people had privately lobbied with a couple Commissioners to get this moratorium passed.

Do you truly believe that only 100 people support WSR?