Salmo:

Your comments (RE: splitting the Skagit at the Dalles bridge for steelhead seasons) make sense, also.

I guess in my mind I was thinking that we would get better spawn % rates by taking the pressure off of the fish that are spawning upriver. If the majority are indeed spawning upriver and in the smaller tributaries (as your research + experience show) then would it not make sense to pressure the fish less the closer they are to their spawn beds?

By restricting the fishing to an area far below their spawn area, fishing success should be about the same with less CnR going on just as they are entering their respective spawning areas. (not trying to make argument, but asking this as a question)

Unlike Titanium, I don't have the years of fishing experience to go on, rather just what seems logical to me. Seems that common mans logic can not always apply to fish reproduction..:-)

Mike