A guy light-lining Steelhead and playing them out,does a greater hit to the mortality rate of the run,than say a 6yr old driving 25lb test and reeling [censored] in backwards and letting it go for fun.

It's all semantics,until things are bonked on the head and then the line is clearly drawn.

Easy fix,like everything else,but there's no money there...thus the impetus to require Joe Average to have Johnny Cochran streamside on retainer,to decypher the cryptic Rules and the kneejerk reaction of the day.

Very few are actually interested in the Resource's wellbeing,compared to those on the dole in one way or another,perpetually reaching in the cookie jar and extracting cash from the Bureaucratic Bumbling that feeds the fire via selfish self interests.

Legislators are educated beyond their intelligence and eager to prove same.