This "CnR" advocate works on all 5 of the H's...habitat, hydro, harvest, hatcheries, and the umbrella issue of "history"...but the "activist bonkers" tend to focus completely on the "harvest" issue...blaming it on the tribes, and being very protective of their own "right" to bonk...and tend to not be very receptive to conversations regarding any of the other H's, with the exception of "hatcheries", which they tend to think are the end all, be all, to save fish.

They tell me that I need to stop putting all my energy into taking their rights away to bonk, which I don't even work on at all, to be honest with you...and when I point out the things that I actually do work on, specifically the LCR gillnet fisheries, the conversation ends...and then a month later starts up again, and I am told once again to stop focusing on their "right" to bonk, and then they blame it on the tribes...again.

It's a never-ending, always repeating cycle that locks out conversation on everything but bonkers vs. CnR...which in and of itself is funny, because it's not about CnR at all, it's about WSR, which is "wild steelhead release", not "catch and release"...I bonk more fish than almost all the "bonkers" I know, and I do it every year...I just limit my bonking to hatchery steelhead, hatchery salmon, and on a few wild salmon runs that are numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

Point that out, and predictably...the conversation ends, again...and then a month later, right back to "their right to bonk"...again.

If you can somehow get all the "bonker advocates" to look beyond their own bonking stick and tribal nets, then I'll be happy to talk with them, too...but I haven't had much luck with it in the past, except for some very exceptional folks, who unfortunately number less than five total.

Fish on...

Todd