This is one of the places that WDFW needs to work on. The way the regs are written it is questionable if you can legally fish for chums. The way I read it you can legally fish for them so long as you release them. I'm not saying it is the moral thing to do. I'm just interpreting the rules the way they are written.

Note it doesn't say closed to Chinook and Chum. It says "Release".

Now as to having a clinic on how to fish for them? I would say he should have done it on the Sky rather than the Skagit. He has changed the wording now to make you guys happy though. Feel better? :rolleyes:

BTW: I took one of these classes a few years ago and Dennis struck me as someone who was very passionate about the fish and would do everything in his ability to see them survive. Not something a "Poacher" would do!