Originally Posted By: WN1A
[quote=GBL]WN1A
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.


Here's this tired old argument once again! Go ahead and throw in the towell and forfiet any chance of you or your kid catching a native spring steelhead because you are "a hunter gather kind of person."

Let me be clear. Without steelheaders on the river there is no future for steelhead. Only netters and poachers who can finally get their wish and make them extinct so us pesky steelheaders are no longer getting in the way of the netters and poachers and the politicians that support them!!!!
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