I do not support tribal netting but I refuse to let them be dragged through the mud when the season they have have been set to avoid the highest impact on Chinook. They are letting recreational fishers fish almost an entire month before they do.


For those that sit and target Chinook and cause this headache, there needs to be a $2500 fine per Chinook hooked and fought. All tackle, poles, gear, vehicle and whatever else confiscated and auctioned. All money raised used to fund habitat restoration. Throw in that they have to pay all court costs if convicted. Think that it is too hard to enforce, make the law plain simple and clear, hook X Chinook consecutively or in a certain time frame and fight them to the boat or bank and you are targeting them. I never have to worry about this because I know how and where to fish for Coho. If you simply can not manage to hook a Coho regardless of how you fish, then go home and fish another day.