I'm okay with the proposed regs, but I have no illusions that they will make a dime bit of difference. Why? How often does anyone catch and keep a daily limit of walleye or bass or catfish? The current limit is around five per day. When was the last time you caught daily limit of 5 walleye, and then decided to stop fishing for them because you might go over the limit? For me - never. Not once. I have rarely caught and kept a limit of walleye (I've never kept a limit of bass), but when I did, it took me all day.

More often, I caught alot less than the current daily limit (5). In that case, the upper limit is irrelevant. They could make the daily limit 10 or 20 or 100 or a million, what difference does it make if you fish all day and only catch two? Or three?

WDFW can make the daily limit whatever they want. The fact is that daily bag limits do almost nothing to limit the average angler's overall harvest. WDFW knows this, but they are proposing this to get BPA, the Corps, and BoR off their back.