Good news! thanks for the heads up John!

The tackle shop newsletter was a bit out of line, but I think you guys are being hard on Dicksen. Looked like he just recycled his annual chum/dolly school description for his website company. Easily could have been an oversight.

I would like more clarification about targeting closed fish on water open for other species from WDFW. I'm always fished under the assumption that you can't be specifically targeting a closed species, release or no. For instance, fishing a chum candy fly on the NF Stilly with a 10wt rod while claiming to fish for SRC could get you a ticket. But that's just been my assumption. On the Skagit drainage I've generally seen people abiding by the spirit of the law- the Sauk is closed for salmon, and while salmon are present in decent numbers at certain times of the year, I don't see folks fishing for them, same with the Skagit above the Cascade (not to say poaching doesn't happen). In this respect the new law about keeping fish in the water that are illegal to retain makes some sense (I wasn't a fan of that law!). I'd like to keep water open for fishing even if a closed species is present, the specifics to how that is enforced need to be clear from the WDFW. If a silver bites my dolly streamer in the Sauk, and I release the fish in the water, am I breaking the law? I dunno...