I like the logic, Bob. I've always maintained a similar phylosophy.

The next step people would make (hopefully) is to release that 25 pound February fish if they did get it and forgo their 1/year native kill even if it were legal: Ethical evolution so to speak.

What perplexs me is the talk of the WDFW realocating these fish into the tribal harvest. First 4, then all 5, presumably. If this does indeed happen down the road, then the net result will be a ZERO increase in the pre-moritorium escapement value. In other words our effort as sportsmen to bolster the native steelhead population, or at a minimum slow its decline will be in vane.

I'm not advocating killing our share. I'm just sick to death of politics.