As I've said repeatedly, and to you, too, Francis, if I were just wearing my steelhead advocate hat, I'd be all for it, salmon and salmon fishermen be damned...but it's being sold as good for spring Chinook, and good for spring Chinook fishing, which it most assuredly is not, on either count.

I do like to fish for springers on the LCR tribs, and that will also be greatly impacted by this action, not to mention all of our E.Wa. and Idaho neighbors.

Now if the CCA was selling this as "we know it will not help springers, and will lessen opportunity for springer fishing, but we feel it's important enough to support it anyway because of the threat to wild steelhead"...well, then they'd at least be making a valid argument.

Fish on...

Todd