Kids?

GBL, you're not going to get anywhere acting like an adult child, or treating anyone else here like a child, either. Fishing the Skagit for 40 years doesn't make your right, just as fishing it for over 20 years (as I have) doesn't make me right.

That being said, the river is still making escapement. No, there aren't nearly as many as there should be, nor are there nearly as many as I'd like to see...and I'd like to see none of them end up in the bottom of a cooler, whether it be a tribal net, poacher net, or "sportpoacher"...the type that are fishing up there right now on the Sauk, as we all know.

There are, however, fish spawning...lots of them...thousands of them, as a matter of fact...not only that, but they are spawning at a level beyond the set escapement level.

Do the Skykomish River fish swim up to Burlington and get caught in a net? How are they getting netted?

When you mention "steelhead club", if what you mean is the Wildcat Steelhead Club, then you might want to get your information from a few other sources...yes, they mostly live there, and yes, they have been active for a very long time.

They also, however, aren't exactly "reality-based" when it comes to what is going on up on the Skagit system...if it was up to them they'd be lining their coolers with those fish, too, and they have somehow concluded that it is the tribes' faults that they can't do so.

There are a lot more objective, rather than emotional, sources of information out there...avail yourself to them.

Fish on...

Todd