Aunty,

Answer this one question and I am done with this topic.

If 350 boats fished the Willamette today and 16 fish were taken. Would it matter if the limit was 1 or 3 fish. Would any more fish have been taken from the river had the limit been increased?

The answer is obviously NO.

That is what this whole post is about. The DFW didn't save anything by limiting the fishery to a 1 fish limit. So long as the amount of anglers on the water more than doubles the amount of fish to be had, it will never effect the final daily count. Not until you have everyone on the water with a limit of fish, will the limit amount matter.

It is a trump card the DFW plays to thign they are helping the run when they admitted themselves that it only makes a 1% difference.

Lets look real hard here to see where I asked for more fish? Hmmmm. I didn't. Anyone find where i'm being greedy?

When there are more fisherman than fish, the efforts never fade and fish will always lose. There are over 300,000 licensed fisherman on in Oregon, and one would believe that many in Washington. If everybody was to catch just one fish a year, The run would be gone.

I believe we need to stagger the openings to aloow a certain percentage of fish to pass without interference from teh fisherman. Open the river every other day, or something like that. NOt to extend the season any longer, but to allow some to get by. Sportfisherman combined with netter have already taken more fish from the ower river than has passed the dam.

Look at the counts fall off again this week. 269,000 fish is a pipe dream. It's almost May 1st and you will be hard pressed to fisd a year with 269,000 fish and this low of numbers accross the dam so far. It's not gonna happen and we already caught our anticipated allotment from a hypothetical run that is not amounting to a hill of beans. Fish lose again.