Originally Posted By: GBL
WN1A
Right now, today the Skagit is full of Indian nets and has been for weeks and will be for another month.
The Fish have no chance no matter how prestine the river system is or how much they tell us we must release fish and protect habitat!

Releasing Kings and Steelhead (or any fish) these days is a joke and will continue to be a joke as long as those nets are allowed in the river system. You may feel good releasing fish as we all do, but don't think for a minute you are helping the fish runs.
I release most everything, but not because of the brain washing going on, I release becuase I don't need the fish.


From the view point of the fish they don't care who kills them or how, Indian nets, snaggers, sports fishermen, or CNR fishermen. I personally do not fish for salmon in freshwater except for a rare try for springers and sockeye in Lake Washington and for the past several years have only fished for steelhead in December when the catch is primarily hatchery fish. I believe that directed catch and release fisheries do nothing to preserve fish runs, they only prolong the decline. I am a hunter gather kind of person, eat what I take and only take what I can eat. After that any fishing and release of fish I don't need is part of the problem. When we point fingers at individuals or groups that we feel are responsible for the decline of fish runs we should be looking in the mirror. As I indicated in the previous post there will be salmon long after humans are gone.