Well Todd,

I forgot to compliment you on your letter. Although our positions on the moratorium differ I believe it is well written and must say it is far less zealous than I would have suspected. Good job!

Now! In answer to your questions and implications:

You wrote:
"What's up, Plunk? Why ask now? You've been having such a good time over at gamefishin.com with your buds talking like you had it all figgered out already...well, I guess better late than never, but asking a week ago could have spared a 9 page thread about what WT's stance may or may not be..."

As usual, you put forth a distractive redirection of attention. The thread you talk about contained very little about WT's position and a lot of mediocre BS that you played a major part in.

The question about WT's position was asked and you answered:
"I don't think that WT has an opinion on WSR...if they do, I'm not aware of it."

I speculated that:
"Washington Trout is a wild fish advocacy organization, not a fishing club. They want all hatcheries closed and approve of "catch and release only" fishing for wild fish in some circumstances so long as the long term future of the runs are not impaired."

This thread obviously concerns the moratorium and Ramon mentioned that he might to attend the hearing. Since he obviously intended to return to this thread I recognized what seemed to be a good chance to actually get a first hand answer to the question.

That what's up and why I asked.

I'm quite sure my speculation above is correct about WT's position and I would suspect that Ramon personally backs the moratorium.

Ramon?