FB,

I hear ya, and I agree that a lot of mad folks would storm the castle over a no bait rule, but this would put some money where our sport-fisher mouths should be, as an effort to save wild fish, or not.

A no bait and single barbless hook rule that we sport fishers actually asked for, could do one of two things. Over a monitored & measured period of time it may show that bait fishing as we do it today has little to no measurable effect on enabling these fish to make it back to the spawning beds, or it will. Either or both answers would help us all to better understand what may be negatively affecting these fish.

Redd