Boater, did you get tangled in your gillnet and have the air supply get cut off to your dome or what? Doc is right on when he states springers are poor biters. I have these fish dialed In, spank some of the best guides out there day after day, caught tons of limits, but there are piles of fish on the graph but only a few will grab it. And if bonneville opens the gates it shuts them off big time it happened last spring. Oh and handling the ENDANGERED SPECIES Salmon and W. Steelhead in nets that wrap them all up over and over again kills the $hit out of them. I catch winter steelhead on a lower columbia trib that return particularly late for winter steel and they all have net marks and seal bites combined. Stressed and tired from being tangled up, then beat up by multiple gillnetters makes them scooby snacks for seals. And these were the lucky steelies that didn't die and sink out of the nets. These gillnetters handle these fish like they are in there way, kick the $hit out of em right back into the river. Oh, they have a recovery tank you say? What happens when no one is watching how they operate the recovery tank? What if the tank isn't functioning properly or not functioning at all? What happens when the netters are catching a big pile of fish and filling their totes, do they take time to recover all the wilds properly or reset their tangle net and start catching as fast as they can? How about the SALMON FOR ALL PRESIDENT who was busted killing Wilds and selling them, had his recovery tank not working while netting, and selling fish that were not recorded. People who operate tangle net boats kill the piss out of the fish runs and lay waste to the entire river yet a minority on this site yells out loud that we need to keep these nets around till we can total rid the columbia of industrial commercial fishing. How many more years will the wild fish runs hold on for dear life before they blink out of existence? While greedy donkeys fight to keep these nets around In the name of better sport catches, wild salmon fade into oblivion. These wilds are the gems. When they are gone inbred hatchery fish will wither away and we will have NO salmon.