Let's see some numbers.

I am not sure I understand either where the numbers come from. PLEASE EDUCATE ME!

The last two years have been the best I have ever seen on the beaches here for wild steelhead. Last year was amazing, and already a few have been caught, and there is less pressure now then ever before for steelhead from the beach, so that means there has got to be more fish. I am all for conservation and closing things down when needed, I am REALLY for adjusting regulation among sport and commercials during the run, actually managing runs based on real time numbers and conditions. That is what needs to happen. There is no conservation if simply shutting down sport fishing, CnR or bonking, is the states answer to low predicted returns. We want competant management, not headline grabbing disasterous conclusions. Nobody who loves fishing would be against shutting down anything if it means preserving and enhancing a resource for the future, but allowing the rodeo type netting to go on and on and on untill the last steelhead is found, netted, and sold to some tourist at the Pike Place Market is a sin worthy of a lifetime at Walla Walla. I want to see reasonable common sense state biologist who are non-polictical getting results and I want to see the friggin' worthless self-serving ego maniac selfish self-preserving piss me off politicians get out of the way. Running for anything in this states government means you are to represent the wants and needs, and best interests of the citizens of this state. It does not mean to get elected and do what ever it takes to preserve your ass, get out of the way and preserve the resource, which is what fish are, they are a beautiful self sustaining, amazingly resourcefull resource if you get the f'n politics out of the way. 90 % of all citizens and state biologists would be thrilled and do the right things to manage our fisheries if the piss me off special interest and political gain loser ass politicians would just get their caloused souls out of the friggin' way. I believe not all people in government are this way, just too many and we are complacent enough to keep electing them. Screw what they say, look at what they do, then vote, then continue to voice your opinion and send letters or emails or whatever it takes. And don't be a hipocryt. I have not done enough for the resource accept trying to abide by the laws and educate my fishing friends. I need to be educated myself more, obviously. But geez, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the fisheries should be managed by people who actually know what they are talking about and not politicians who pull answers out of their ass with a fake smile on their get me elected again face and ensure their next victory by making conservation neglecting promises to fishery users, or takers who have no interest in preserving anything for the future, just getting the buck they can now because they can or out of tradition.

Oh, by the way, why are there more wild steelhead being caught on the beach now anyway? And bonk the locals here who bonk the natives on the beach. I never see a game wardern around here in Feb., march, April when a few fish a week end up in a refridgerator just up the beach. Enforce the rules we have thouroughly, figure out how to help the fish and fisheries, and act quickly to get results. It ain't that hard if you take the friggin' ass kissing out of it.