Opinions are fine...educated ones are a lot better, and you don't have to have 30 years of work in the field like Sg does, either...like I said, the resources are out there, they're free, and all they take is a little research and reading.

farmed it, cutting tribal netting where there is virtually none would do...virtually nothing.

I take that back...it would make a bunch of dudes who blame everything on harvest, and don't care about the other 98% of the factors that are screwing our fish runs, it would make them feel better, for a little bit, at least, until they saw that it did absolutely no good whatsoever.

Then they'd be bummed, because then they'd need another scapegoat to blame it on...

Any plan that is based in large part on an impossible dream of ending tribal netting, especially when the tribal netting catches almost no wild steelhead on the Skagit, is the type of plan that is a complete waste of time and energy...

Like I said, it's "plans" like that that divide sportsmen...if you really want to get people behind a common plan, first sportsmen are going to have to be educated about what the issues actually are...it's unfortunate, but for many the discussions that take place on this BB are the only education that they ever get about our fisheries, and so long as there are folks ranting emotionally...and inaccurately...about how to solve our problems, then there will be others to point out how ridiculous that is.

I don't even care if it changes the minds of those who hold the factually incorrect positions...it might, however, prompt another person to put in the very little time required to do their own research...and that makes it worth it right there.

Fish on...

Todd