I only speak for myself, but I am a fisherman, which means that I like the act of fishing. I would vote for whatever method gets us on the river earlier, and in the warmer weather so that I can take my young kids. If that means no-bait, that is fine, but the point is to enjoy September on the river and have a chance at the early-returning hatchery coho which we haven't got to catch for a while.

Speaking of reporting, we have to report our deer, ducks and everything else hunting on the internet. If WDFW is going to ask the commercials to report daily, can they ask us to report via internet or phone line daily (if you caught something)? I mean it would be a pain in the rear, but really would not take that long, plus it would be really interesting to see the sports results real time compared to the commercial results.

Dial a phone number, input your WILD id#, input river code, input 1 for jacks, input 2 for wild coho released, input 3 for hatchery coho retained, input 4 for adult chinook released, input 5 for adult chum released, then make inputs for the number of each, blah, blah, blah. It would confuse the hell out of some of the old timers, but it could work. The internet version would be much easier.



I know they will say there is no money for that kind of thing, but they could put out a contract for just one basin, and have it run by someone else in the pilot format.