NW Panhandler,

You make a serious mistake of overestimating the importance of sport fishing licenses for salmon and steelhead. WDFW can live without it. The majority of fishing licenses are sold to anglers who fish lowland lakes for resident trout about five times a year, at most. We hard core anglers cost the Dept. more than we pay. Boater has lousy social skills, but you should try to analyze what he's saying.

Sg