Salmo-
This post prove my point again.
The Indians have been netting every species of fish in the Skagit for years, if I told you what we used to do to the nets back in the early 70's I would end up in jail.
It is not mis-guided, I lived it from the mid 60's till today when it still goes on.
What pisses me off is the people that make some kind of excuse for the Indian and commercials that somehow it is Ok for them to do what they do becuase we have a treaty or "law" protecting them.
Wrong is wrong, the Indians are just proving the point once again and will get aways with it again. They will kill more Native Steelhead that will end up on some plate on a Northwest Flight to Japan than the whities kill all year in the whole state. And in the end, they will blame whitie and/or the habitat.
No different than the ocean netters using stupid rules and regulations to obliterate whole runs of fish in the ocean. Both US and foreign.