This will be a pink year. A couple million in the Green and Puyallup will draw hordes of license buyers. Probably take up the slack for the non-buyers, this year.

Trouble will be the non-pink year, after hatchery cuts put less trout in lakes.

The invrease in fees will keep weeding out the casual angler, family, etc. WDFW seems to recognize, but doesn't addres, the aging of the hunting and fishing crowd. I have heard that Opening Day used to be a family event; now it is mostly adults from what I have heard.