I agree with Salmo that the past few popular threads have been very repetitive.

I suspect this may be for the following simple reason: We are fundamentally divided on the issue of WSR.

I think the main reason we are divided is that the fish bonkers feel that they got screwed because they can't bonk wild fish anymore (no opportunity). Meanwhile the CNR fishers get as much or more opportunity than ever before.

The CNR folks justify this screwing of the bonkers by saying its better for the fish this way. That may or may not be true depending on how you look at it and what is really going on with the steelhead populations.

Certainly the status quo was flawed. Is a blanket WSR reg an improvement for the fish, most likely. Could a better set of regs be devised that both help the fish and give both bonkers and CNR folks ample opportunity to fish for wild fish. Certainly, but it would require more work than a blanket reg.

I think some sort of compromise will ultimately be worked out (assuming the bonkers aren't too politically apathetic--Clearly a segment of the CNR folks are not).

Hopefully we can all find something more usefull to worry about for a while.