Capt -
Actually I hear a lot of "we should do this". The problem is that there isn't a lot of agreement or commitment to bring the idea to fruition.

When one looks at the catch contribution of the various stocks during the winter blackmouth season I don't see how you can consider this fishery a "clean" fishery. While the portion of hatchery fish in the blackmouth fishery is pretty high the wild fish that are caught tend to come from the very stocks (springs and summers) that a key to any meaningful Chinook recovery in Puget Sound. We "spend" a pretty good chunk of the allowable ESA impacts targeting those immature Chinook.

To illustrate how divided the sport fishing community be what would be your reaction to my "we should target adult Chinook during the summer rather than the immature fish during the winter - for similar ESA impacts I suspect that we could provide access to larger Chinook for a larger cross section of the angling community." The effort duirng the 2 1/2 week selective Chinook fishery this summer in MA 9 and 10 dwarfed what you be seen in months during the winter blackmouth season.

Apologies to other readers for being off topic.

Tight lines
Curt