Well Bob, I would say nets are a major issue, but I would also say is that YOU and your GUIDE buddies are another major issue. There are a enough of you guys out there now too really make yor voice be heard, but as soon as the state tells you "no" you run back home and cry in your beer. How about this, all you guides quit pounding the [censored] out of our wild fish eight days a week. You cant tell me all you guides catching the same fish over and over again is good for mortality. Get your asses down to Olympia, and don't leave till you get what you want, or just quit your BITCHIN. You guys had your chance 20 years ago to end all this crap, but anybody who has been around hear long enough and done enough reasearch knows that all you guides back at that time were to worried about loosing your "kick back money" from the tribes, so you chose to keep your mouth shut. One more thing and I'm done. You have a real problem with people keeping wild fish. Can you honestly tell me that you have'nt? I would be willing to bet you have, and more than just a few. Quit Bitchin at these guys. It is there right to keep one WILD fish a year, It's what You and your guild buddies settled on with the state.
Hmm, someone who thinks he "knows" me, but obviously doesn't.
Custombuilt, I'll agree with you one one point: the guides are a problem. Dozens of guides that take, take, take and don't ever put back in one form or another. There are far too many during the peak of it and that isn't good for the fish.
But, you're way off base in some of your your other remarks. I'll bitch, but I've also put 1000's of hours in to get things changed ... whether you like the final results or not.
Haven't had a drink in 20 years as of Nov., so it's kinda hard to cry in my beer by the way
I sure wish I got some "Kickback" money. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't have to put the hours in that I do do make a decent wage. You're flat full of crap.
The Guides' Assoc. did back the wild fish release (by a slim margin) that went through 7-8 years agao that was repealed and changed to one fish annually. It's not what we "settled" on. It's what the brilliant city leaders pushed for.
Lots of the guide crowd still kill way too many of these these intentionally ... it all comes down to the mighty buck.
You're smokin' some wacky tobacky if you think I'm lumped into that group - I've harvested one wild fish in my lifetime, that was in the early 90's and it it still resides on my wall.
Over all the trips I've made down these rivers, my boat has come in with a wild fish on two occasions: both fish that bled out during the battle. In neither case was the fish "intentionally" killed.
I have always had a zero kill policy, and years agao, it cost me some trips. I didn't budge even though it cost me trips when I still only had a few ... unfortunately, most don't have the kahunas and willingness to make a stand.
You can disagree with my reasoning and beliefs all you like ... but U can't call me a liar or a cheat
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