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Originally posted by Fishingjunky15:
I think they are trying to protect blackmouth or ESA chinook.
If they are mature Chinooks, and fin-clipped, there is absolutely no logical reason we can not keep these fish. Good grief, WE PAY FOR THEM.

Being hatchery fish, what the heck else are they for if not to be kept by the taxpaying fishermen that support the %$#**&^ hatchery???????????

Yeah, I am 100% in agreement with Fastwater on this issue.

SAME problem exists here in the Skagit. There are probably thousands of these Kings returning each year, hatchery fish, and yet we can't catch or keep them. What the heck else are they for if they are hatchery bred??????

Anyone who doesn't think they are thicker than he11 in the river here should spend an hour sitting one evening on my back deck, and listen to them jumping, rolling and rolicking all over the place just yards away.

Mike B