Originally Posted By: GBL
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Everyone, no matter who, or what you are, kill fish, if you fish, no matter if you release every fish you catch there is going to be mortality. If you can't take a native tumbling down the river after you release it, stop fishing.
Fishermen kill Natives
Bad guides kill Natives
Nice guides kill Natives
Indians kill Natives
Nets kill Natives
And oh my! Those purist fly fishermen probalby kill more than all the rest (excluding the indians) ever watched a fly fisherman hook a big Steelhead only to play it out for an hour or more? That fish has little chance of survival.
If you want to protect the natives, close it all down and leave them alone in the river to do their duty. Maybe some day there will be enough come back that a few dead ones from whatever means of death, will not hurt the system.


I'm no spring chicken and fish both gear and fly. I honestly can't say I've ever seen a flyfisherman play a steelhead for an hour. Is that the case on the Situk?
If a guide can make a stance that his clients must release all wild steelhead, perhaps guides or lodges should decline booking from clients based on their choice of gear as well. That would eliminate the so called flyfishing purist that you feel are doing harm to the to the wild steelhead populations.
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