Cupo,

Careful now. That's coming close to an ethnic slur. I've fished with some of those tarheels, and I have a pre-1980 outboard too. Unfortunately, it's true that the farther you drive from I-5 and major highways, the cheaper the brands of beer cans and bottles in the roadside, lakeside, or streamside litter.

The Wildcat Steelhead Club has become active in promoting the enhancement of the Baker sockeye, and I'm happy to have the support. It's a program with a lot of potential social and biological benefits. The run will support a lot of mid-summer recreational fishing and tribal ceremonial and subsistence. It also helps the ecosystem. As Baker sockeye have recovered, the bull trout population appears to be doing much better too, since they prey on the juvenile salmon. Even residual chinook have been found preying on juvenile sockeye.

Hope you don't mind those tarheels fishing for the sockeye. I've worked on this far too long to turn back now.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.