I'll throw in a for Mike as well.

I used to live right next to him and many a night, I would interupt his walk up the street with his kids so we could talk fish. He's as passionate about the resource as we are and even shared some ideas that lead me to think we do have a few friends in WDFW. But he, like many others within the dept. are bound by legal directives and statutes from all the beureacratic crap from above hence, the appearance of having different philosophies sometimes on resource management issues.