Ok, I'll take that bet.

While I don't disagree with the part that you feel you can land a VW bus quickly with your spey rod, I, as well as most of the people I fish with would flat out SMOKE you on time alone to land the same VW with my 8' 6" 1025c, 15lb UG on my Revo in a drift boat. Heck, a 1263.5 spooled up with 30lb PowerPro and 15 pound leader damn near skips a steelhead across the surface...if one wanted too.....Just ask Batson.

If you'd said "both on the beach", I think it would be a pretty fair bet. But you did say I get to be in a boat. A moving boat can catch up to *any* fish in about two oar strokes if they truly want too. The fight would over in seconds.......

I never said I had to be in a sled...side drifting....fishing an ultra-light 1141s with 8lb main line.....which is probably what you are witnessing or were thinking of.



Agreed.

We, as anglers, need to lead by example and stop the allowable harvesting of any wild steelhead in our state. IE, a state wide ban on the harvesting of wild steelhead.

Once that happens, we organize as a group (yeah, I know, wild dream) and go to places like Komo, Kiro, and King TV and show them working tribal gillnets in action. We go on TV and do pieces that show a fisherman (I nominate Stam) catching and *releasing* a wild steelhead. The audience sees a fish swim away and Stam makes some statement about how he's not killing the wild fish, etc. Next scene turns to a gillnet on the Hoh loaded with dead wild steelhead....and more scenes of the tribes harvesting away with their gillnets hauling in dead fish after fish. Pan back to Stam, who's got a TEAR in his eye and says "I thought they said they were the Stewards of our Environment......"