Kingjamn,

Like I said above a couple of times, emotion will always overrule logic and truth, especially when dealing with many of our fishing brethren who aren't all that interested in the truth.

The Boldt Decision has been discussed ad nauseum, and comments like the above continually are put forth by our own in the fishing world...some who flat out don't know, and by some who should know better, but choose to make emotional arguments rather than logical ones based on fact.

In most contexts, battling the ignorance within our own ranks is the biggest battle we have to fight...it's why we can never get in the same book, much less on the same page.

Once most of the people get interested in the truth, and then find out about it, those who are not interested will be further marginalized and then will have less impact on our image as sportfishermen.

Frankly, I don't know how that will be accomplished...I guess one person at a time...hopefully there will still be steelhead and habitat left to save once enough shed their ignorance and have gotten involved on a 'reality based' level, rather than an emotionally based one.

Fish on...

Todd