I don't think anyone is disillusioned...yet...that the CCA hasn't solved all their problems in 14 months.

What they're disilllusioned with is that the CCA hasn't even told them what they stand for in 14 months, besides boosting $25 memberships and selling banquet tickets.

I wouldn't give any group a dollar until I know what they stand for, and anyone who tells me to "trust them" and just sign up must either think I just fell off a turnip truck, or more likely just fell off one themselves. That doesn't even take into account the made up Cedar Creek story that is being used to sell those memberships and banquet tickets...not trustworthy at all on that one.

People aren't asking about secret strategies, or looking for an attorney to come out and outline their legal arguments, or anything like that...how about just what do you stand for? Is it really that hard?

Like Parker said, so far all they stand for is an amorphous "save fish and fishing" with no explanation whatsoever, and selling memberships and banquet tickets.

stever, whatever you might think about the WSC, you knew what we stood for and what we were going after from Day 1.

You weren't bombarded with "membership drives", you didn't pay for your membership, and then get hounded into not only dropping more change on banquet tickets, but to have to go out and schlep banquet tickets, too.

You certainly didn't have to re-up 12 months later and still not know what we stood for...you already knew for 12 months what we stood for.

You mention WSR? Within 18 months of the WSC's formation we spearheaded the drive that reduced the limit from 30 wild steelhead to five, and the following year won the moratorium ending sport harvest of wild steelhead. That moratorium was reversed, and a one fish limit was reinstated.

Rather than sell memberships and banquet tickets, we actually went out and did something that we said we would do, that everyone knew from Day 1 that we were after, and got almost all the way there in two years.

Going from a 30 fish limit on twenty seven rivers, to a 1 fish limit on seven, is a direct result of doing exactly what we said we would do...from Day 1.

I didn't see any need to bring the WSC, or any other group into this conversation, since this conversation is about what the CCA hasn't done in the past year, not about other groups...but since you bring it up, thanks for bringing up a perfect example of how to get it done...come up with a goal, tell your membership what it is, how you're going to do it, and then go and do it...

Fish on...

Todd