Bruce,

You're right...I did miss that post...however, I doubt it would be too hard to find many examples of when you stated that if we need to have WSR, then we should just stop fishing and shut the rivers down.

I don't think that the wanting to sit down with your family and eat your catch example is all that compelling, either...it's been pointed out repeatedly throughout these threads, but wild steelhead comprise something like 3% of the harvest of steelhead in Washington...there are tens of thousands of steelhead harvested to eat every year...tens of thousands of them without adipose fins. This doesn't even count the hundreds of thousands of salmon that are caught and eaten, either.

None of us are going to miss out on eating our catch with our families and friends if we don't eat wild steelhead. You said you've never harvested wild steelhead...but you seem to know about eating fish that you caught. Looks like you're doing just fine without eating wild steelhead...

Fish on...

Todd