From another thread but it is valid here as some ask why / how this season happened.

"I guess we need to argue for a sport chum season at the next NoF. "

Backing up a bit but if you want to have a effect on the next NOF you should have started working on it the minute the schedule for this years NT nets went out as I did, in fact I started last November. NOF is a Dog & Pony show with the basic outcome predetermined. Chum on the table? Christ RW said no directed harvest on Chum the entire meeting. In fact only option 3 & 4 no changes. In comes Phil then lunch AND wella changes. ( ain't safe to do lunch evidently ) Out of the meeting to the QIN goes WDFW and more changes ( with out public knowledge ) AND now directed harvest on Chum.

So if you want to have a cause and effect on the next years NOF, START NOW! Go after the commission & Phil Anderson & Jim Scott no holds barred about how R-6 harvest is managed & STAY ON THEM. RW and his staff are a great bunch of folks individually BUT FOLLOW DIRECTION. So don't kill the messenger but go after Phil Anderson & Jim Scott who set direction and start with that commission that is sound a sleep at the wheel and worthless as tits on a bore hog!