Originally Posted By: Devilsadvocate

Second, before the steelhead moratorium of 3 years ago that was pushed so heavily by many fly fishermen and C&R guys, the tribes were only netting 3 or 4 days a week. Because of the moratorium, the tribes felt (and I know that it does not make any sense) that they should be able to harvest the fish that we were not. Now they net Monday through Friday. In essence the whole idea of the moratorium went right out the window and the netting has increased.

Good job guys don’t blame me for that one.

(I am not making a crack at the fly fishermen here, I myself grew up fly fish for steelhead and currently I do both)


Well, I'll ignore some of the things that bother me to focus on the biggest issue in this post. If what you say is true about the netting the the problem is that the *goverment* (state or federal) won't take them to court on it. Nowhere in the Boldt decision does it state that if sportfishermen forgo there allotment for harvest that it goes to the NA nations. WSR should have *nothing* to do with that at all. Our allotted steelhead are ours to do what we will. If we decide that we want to have longer C&R seasons to encourage sport fishing activities, then that is our perogative...

-- Cheers
-- James