Look at the big picture.

The only ones driving a wedge were the ones seeking to sabotage the Tier Plan for their own selfish motives.

Certain folks spoke out on behalf of chinook conservation. Others had a "fish'em til every last paper fish is dead" mentality. Which ones would you support?

Certain folks spoke out on behalf of an all-inclusive fishery accessible to the FULL diversity of sportfishers. Others selfishly wanted the lion's share of the available impacts for their own personal chinook kill fishery. Again which ones would you support?

Certain folks spoke out about maximizing the potential harvest of a bumper crop of coho... especially for the upriver users who have historically had to settle for the short end of the stick.

Everybody gets a generous opportunity to participate in what promises to be a bountiful harvest of coho.

Bottom line, the GH season we will get in 2009 saves chinook while giving the largest number of recreational users a wide open season on harvestable coho. If you can't get on board with that, sorry, the train is just gonna leave you behind.... get used to it, because that's simply the way harvest fisheries of the future will be structured.

Old habits die hard.... R.I.P! This is the dawn of a new day.