Don't worry about my left one, or my right one...I type with two hands.

For all the reasons I stated above, that fishery needs to go the way of the dodo bird...and in spite of 99.997% of the people fishing there being complete and utter wastes of human leavings, the WDFW will trot out the four legit fishers and tell us why it's so important to have fisheries like that.

That's why there shouldn't be anyone who considers themself a legit sportfisher anywhere near that cesspool...they shouldn't let themselves be tools in the defense of the indefensible.

Yes, it makes sense to fish where there are fish, especially when you are learning...check the map, there are thousands and thousands of miles of stream in this state, and almost all of them are open at some time or another, most of the systems have hatcheries, and there are several hundreds of thousands of salmon and steelhead available in those streams to be fished for, caught, and harvested...

...and at most of them you'll be fishing for fish that aren't running scared with hooks jutting out of their a$$holes, and stand a much lower chance of hooking a diaper floating by, or have to worry about miles of line, hooks, crap, garbage, and actual $hit to step in, tangle up in, or just stand around in all day while fishing.

Go up to the hatchery and check the fish that have somehow made it through there without being snagged, flayed, and tossed in the trunk of the rustbucket...many are sporting massive hooks pinned all over them like piscivorous Goth lords, and many more of them are covered with festering sores from the hook stabbings they all took in the body cavity in their mad dash to get from the garbage strewn tidelands to the Purdy Creek hellhole.

Tasty.

Fish on...

Todd