Oregon stopped a similar proposal 1 or 2 years ago.

IMO it will solve nothing. Smallies and walleye have been around the NW for 100 years. One only has to look at the Umpqua and John Day rivers.

The Umpqua is flat out loaded with smallmouth, yet Oregon decided that wild steelhead retention was fine.

Would there be more salmon and steelhead if there were no bass? Probably so, but removing them would be impossible and the bass fishery down there brings in alot of money to the local economy.

I do my best to eat as many as I can when I travel down there.

In eastern Wa. the number of warm water anglers probably outnumbers the salmon and steelhead anglers. I doubt this proposal will go far.