Although I'll give Gary Loomis a ton of credit for assisting in the hatchery returns on the Lewis River (Fish First net pens) I'll never buy the whole "mop up" gillnet fishery on his 16,000 wild coho....... Granted he's put ton's of effort into Cedar Creek with colverts, river clean up etc, you can't put a hatchery egg in a box and put it in a river and call the returning fish "wild".... It makes no sense......

I've fished that river more days in the last 15 years than 99.9% of the people out there. There's no way on god's green earth that Cedar Creek had a run anywhere close to 16,000 fish. To claim that is obsurd. If all the hatchery coho and spring chinook were actually "clipped" in the Lewis the states would be in for a rude awakening...

As for CCA, I won't put forth the slightest bit of effort until I understand what their stance is with hatchery fish and what would be next "if" in fact they were able to get the gillnets out of the Columbia...........

Keith