Me too... I'm tied into the gillnets as well. I'm a bonified gillnet hugger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other than meeting with a couple of old timer gillnets on my own time to question them about what they caught in their nets... You know mesh size vs species, etc.. I was fortunate to know a family that did gillnet and talked to the grandfather that had been netting the longest.

What was so funny about the conversation was he was so pissed about the fact they had to use tangle nets during the year they slaughtered the wild winter steelhead. The netters themselves explained to WDFW that they were worse for steelhead but WDFW didn't follow suit... More or less it was more work for them to pluck the entangled winter steelhead from the nets hence wasting time getting more springers... He said the 8 3/4 or 9" mess didn't touch many steelhead at all as they slipped through the nets... I tried my ass off to get on his boat as he had invited me but couldn't make it due to schedule conflicts and the fact they fished at night....

Really makes you wonder about WDFW...

Aunty, perhaps you should reevaluate your stance... I mean I enjoy you in many debates, typically on the right sidelines... You've been brainwashed into a [censored] cult that "will" crumble the entire system... You think the trade centers were a saddening issue, wait until CCA gets their way and forces the commercials to seine nets, etc. The sky will start falling for sportsmen and harvest... It will take time but mark my word you think our seasons suck now, we'll be in for a world of hurts.....

It seriously burns me to watch all this [censored] go down.... I hope like hell the bill doesn't pass in Oregon, when it does we're in trouble. Remember CCA doesn't run the system, the WDFW and ODFW do....

Keith