And George W. Bush told you it would work.

What the hell does that have to do with the CCA?

I get the feeling that the CCA bandwagoneers don't like my responses, so maybe this is the first thing they should learn...stop asking the exact same questions over and over, and I'll stop telling you the exact same answers, over and over.

Like I've pointed out before, I've probably done more in the past year or two than all the new CCA experts have done combined in their careers in fisheries politics...maybe they should just all worry about themselves a little more, and stop asking me why I'm not joined up?

A wrapup:

1. It's not about the harvest, especially to the exclusion of virtually all of the rest of the problems, most of which are so much more important than the harvest element as to render harvest almost irrelevant in 90%, or more, of the fisheries.

2. Stop, against all evidence to the contrary except in a few select areas, telling me it is.

3. Stop asking me if I've gone to hear Gary speak...I have, twice, and he's still not right, just because he keeps saying it over and over again. Saying repeatedly that WDFW setup a fishery intending to harvest "his" fish is purely made up out of thin air, even if the lot of you accept it at face value.

4. Stop saying that what has been done has not worked. It shows just how ignorant you are. If there hadn't been the groups and individuals who have been working on fisheries issues on behalf of the fish and the recreational angler for the past fifty years there wouldn't be any fish, or any fishing, at all. Get yourself educated and see just how much work has been done on your behalf, whether you know it or not.

5. Stop telling me to join up to affect the direction of the CCA...they are so harvest-oriented that there is no affecting any of their policies right now...they will have to figure it out for themselves.

6. When they do, and suffer the purge of membership when tribal netting has not changed one bit, in spite of the great expectations to do so, then I'll see where they decide to go from there. If I feel that it is in a meaningful direction, then I'll see about joining up.

7. Until then, I will do what I have always done...work with the several groups that I think are addressing the actual issues that affect fish and our fisheries, and help out when I can.

You will not find one time, anywhere, where I have chided someone for joining up with the CCA...to the contrary, I have consistently told all the newbies to the fisheries poltiics world that I'm glad that they have finally decided to get involved.

The next person to chide me for not joining the CCA will get an earful, that I promise.

Now, how about we get back to the topic of this thread, which, believe it or not, is not the CCA?

Fish on...

Todd