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Originally posted by Bob:
Elkrun ... Not trying to start something here, BUT coho fishing in the salt? perhaps one of the highest mortality fisheries there are for released fish. I imgaine you're fishing mixed stocks out there ...

If you fish for anything, there is an impact. In every fishery there will be something someone can point out that isn't the best for fishing.

Along the same lines, if you're fishing for hatchery fish and accidently kill an early nate that swam along ... you've made an impact on the early portion of the run which is in far worse shape than late component.

This no fishing when wild fish are around mentality is simply a cop-out and nothing more in my book.

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Sorry this is a couple days late, I've been busy.

Bob- So there shouldn't be a coho fishery, where there are hatchery fish for harvest? Thats one of my fears with WSC and their agenda....whats next.

Yet, fishing for an admittedly depressed stocks in their spawning rivers is acceptable? THAT sounds more like a cop out to me. While I agree there is high mortality rates in the salt on silvers, theres more of them, so fishing them is making a smaller impact overall. In the rivers you have a confined, limited population, hammered daily on the way to their redds (and sometimes on the redds). Sounds like a no brainer to me as far as which has the higher impact on depressed runs.

My flyfishing coho in the salt comment was put there to get a reaction. This regulation seems more like a group imposing THEIR favorite way to fish on everybody else. Just like I implied in my comment.

I also have to respectfully say that I feel CFM was given too short a leash. I have seen him and MANY others take it a lot further without being kicked off. I know that this is your sight, and its your choice how you handle it. I have seen other people on the more "favorable" side of an issue be extremely abusive without reprecussion. It seems that CFM's stance got him in trouble here. At least thats the iimpression I have.

Now I wonder if I'll get the boot for disagreeing....