I'm not picking on you because of your age, but I won't have anyone who doesn't know me tell me I'm some sort of an "elitist", and though I don't know how old you are, I'd guess somewhere in your early to mid-20's, and I won't have someone half my age telling me about "traditional" fishing areas or techniques, either.

I fish damn near anywhere, and I do it year 'round...and I fish alongside other anglers all the time, and not just my buddies when we are ten miles from the nearest road...that just happens this time of year.

I fish on the beach with dozens of anglers, and I fished the terminal area on the Sky with a bunch of buddies on June 1...with 100 of our closest friends.

If I'm right on your age, I've fished the Puyallup and Nisqually, and the Green and the Sky, and the Carbon and Deschutes, since long before you were even born...I don't need anyone to tell me what kind of fisheries they are, or that I'm an elitist for avoiding the areas full of knuckledragging mouthbreathers...I'm out to fish, and fish hard...I'm also out to catch fish, lots of 'em, and to take home lots of 'em, too...but I also fish to get away from the city, work, and crowds.

There are lots of places I flat out won't fish...the Nisko, the Puy, Blue Creek, Barrier Dam...many others...but I don't call for them to be closed down, nor do I point at the legit anglers there and tell them that they are part of the problem, because they are not.

The scene I witnessed at Purdy Creek on the Skokomish, however, is different...it is by far the most worthless and disgusting collection of bedraggled human waste $hitting all over themselves to snag a few salmon that are swimming around in circles amongst floating diapers, beer cans, beer boxes, and tackle waste...if a crack opened up there on any given Saturday and swallowed up the entire area, fishing and humankind would be the better for it.

Anyone who fishes there and adds any air of legitimacy to it is awarding WDFW for allowing such a disgusting display to take place...and no one is going to make any of those dip$hits learn anything by any example whatsoever.

About the only thing that might work would be 150 legit anglers all showing up, beating the chit out of every hillbilly jackass there, and then taking over the entire river...

Fish on...

Todd