Salmo G - Being as you called me out....
A little FYI - The forementiond Skagit IS getting early nates. Buddy picked one up near Rockport last weekend. As far as nets, I saw one when I was on the Skagit, the weekend before last, assumed it to be tribal. Another buddy also picked up a chrome coho, and that fish is late.

Wild Rant, spouting off crap..... as you state, is incorrect. Legitimate interests, you got that one right. You are also correct that we need to get our [censored] together.

This thread has gone beyond the Skagit/Sauk issue and touched some nerves, righfully so.

There are many issues that atribute to declining fish stocks: Glabal Warming, Habitat, Sea Lice from fish farms, management or the lack thereof, Overharvest, Development to name a few. The reason I'm fired up is that runs are down, yet netting practices continue, and the state's only answer is to close it down. It boils down to dollars. State doesn't have the money, Commercial lobbies HAVE the money, and us sporties come up short. Why is it the rights of the few are outweighing the rights of the many? Should be the other way around. Trust me well, I'm all for closing it, especially if the nates are in trouble. But if it closes, it's closed to ALL. PRetty simple.
This also applies to ANY run that is in trouble. Why does it take things to get in such bad shape, before drastic measures are taken. It shouldn't take litigation, years of studies, analize statistics. And as we all know, statistics can be sqeued to suit whatever you want it to.
Bottom line is, if nothing is done and done soon, there will be no more fish.

I am passionate about my sport and your undermining comments to myself and the others.... Well you should be ashamed.

Hog out