If there's two talking points that WDFW needs to hear loud and clear over the next 10 days, here they are....

1) Follow the Tier Plan!
The Plan is very prescriptive in spelling out the season-setting objectives for Grays Harbor. Let's just do what it says. It's worked very well the past three years, why screw it up now. Stick with The Plan!

2) Count ALL the dead kings!
The harvest model must be tweaked to accurately enumerate ALL of the Chehalis chinook killed as intentional harvest and as release mortalities. From there, it's just a matter of letting the allocative chips fall where they may. Understating the fishing power/impact of either the recreational or commercial fleets can only harm the resource. We should not be in the business of spending paper fish/impacts that don't exist.
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
Long Live the Kings!