Originally Posted By: GBL
Salmo-
My decision was to stop fishing for Natives in any lower 48 state.
Now that was easy as I fish the Situk in Yakutat every year and hook dozens a day and they are all natives. I hook, land quick and release with the hope they swim off and get to spawn. Do some die? maybe, but the Situk has 10,000 to 16,000 Steelhead in about 15 miles of river so I think that is a healthy native system! And it sustains Steelhead, Kings, Sockeye, Humpies and Silvers all in large numbers.
No commercials (Steelhead only)
No Indians (Steelhead only)
No catch and kill (Steelhead only)
Wonderful habitat
Clean pure water
low pressure
Situk is protected
Amazing what a river can sustain when humans don't reak havick on it!


Yeah well guess what GBL...not everyone has a pristine watershed they are privy to fish 1K Miles from the nearest major population center. I agree with you that without human interuption, nature can do amazing things.
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