Its all about the coin my friends and any of you who cant understand that well you must have one heck of a life style not to mention live in the ice age. I do not frown one bit on there focus to fill the Chest. They are not hiding that fact one bit. I look at organizations like Green Peace and wonder how they get as fare as they do with shutting down issues that they do not feel is in there best intrest of there cause and it sticks and when it doesnt they jump right back in and put there foot down. Why because they stand as one united group with huge political clout and loads of CASH. Correct me if I'm wrong they make changes maybe not for the better for some folks but they make things happen. Even if the CCA passes a few laws do you think that the opposition will not try and fight it in other avenues of the court. It takes money to fight these things and how I see it without everyone joining one group then nothing will happen long term as is the case. The problems is way to huge for us in our own little groups to make things happen.

Your not ever going to change the fact the fish equal money and real money in the case of the salmon! The sport fishing industry spends more money than you could even begin to imagine. The Harvest Fishery is the same but doubtful the money is even close to what we do annually. Greed on both parties, guilty maybe but true manging of these resources must be made so the balance between all can be shared. The fact is the Sports fisherman can be selective but the Gill nets cant thats why they are outlawed in Russia but not in the USA?? Its a costly battle and I cant see another way than CCA holding there hand out asking for CASH.Paying for selective Harvest methods If it comes down to that then thats what we do again CASH.

We fought Fuji Rod components for years at the cost of Millions so we could sell Guides to the market. Even though we were right all along, they fought us to the end and we won. We ultimately joined our other Competitors in this industry and pulled in our recourses from other countries to make this happen. Did we like they way they did business, no but going in individually would have crushed us financially so all I can say history will repeat it self over and over again and this is the way it works in this world. You have to join forces if you like it or not because it takes numbers and cash to back it up.

I do not care at this point if CCA learns as it goes and I expect that, the fact is they know how to gain members and will bring in the cash to support it when the time comes. Will CCA still be around in Ten years to keep fighting the battle? Well by the looks of there numbers in other States i would have to believe yes. Just tell me one other organization that is this large and is focused on our fish for the sport fisherman then I will support that one too.

Tood its folks like you that pioneer and help lay the foundation to get things done and without groups like yours we would be in a bigger world of hurt there is no doubt but it takes a ton of money to do what you ask due to the court system and political clout. CCA needs your input and effort to help speed up the process of attending to the issues that you worked so hard to bring to the table. I bet that if you were to talk with CCA they would welcome your ideas and most likely add them to there line up. Fifteen years doing this I would think you know more than most of the members and folks trying to get this off the grounds. Its that type of feed back and field work data they need when its time to go to battle and use the Cash that CCA has collected. The way you handle your anger on this site about the CCA shows your extremely passionate about the wild fish and I respect that. Gary made a few great points about needing all kinds of educated folks not only Lawyers and judges but people like you who have good field data from doing it. If some of you do not want to be apart of this program then at least keep doing what you have been doing and hopefully in time they can work with you in the future.