Ahh, good seeing you again.......

Why would I want to keep a "native summer-king"? Well first off, let's go back and do some math. I know it may seem odd but I've kept detailed logs of a lot of things over the years... Most of my logs are of some fairly sizeable samples.

For instance, in 2008 we (me and the group of fishing buddies) landed/killed 61 summer kings. Of those 61, 48 were clipped fish... Let's do some math backwards now, that means we landed 78.69% clipped fish. Did you by chance open the pdf file that showed that the 2005 Brood Year had a 76% ad-clip rate from all the hatcheries that released the summer kings....

Coincidence? Maybe.... But I doubt there are very many "true native" summer kings left as well as the springers I've preached about over the past. #'s don't lie, the only issue with my figures is the smaller sample size but it's sure ironic that we as a group landed 78.69% clipped fish and the 2005 Brood year was released at a 76% ad-clip rate....

So, am I really killing "true native fish"??

I'll happily support a hatchery only fishery when we actually have clip rates over 95%....

Like I keep saying, we don't really want to know what we really have left......... I'd hate to see the consequences...

Keith