The dollar amount isn't what is important to the clowns making decisions here. $150,000 for a fishery with thousands anglers is too much? Please.

The $17 million shortfall they used to oust Bern Shanks was chicken scratch when you consider the huge "rainy day fund" the state was sporting at that time. They could have covered it, chalked it up to "when fishing sucks, and fisheries close, people stop buying licenses and punchcards", and listened to 'ol Bern's ideas for fisheries management, but they didn't. Instead the commercials took the opportunity to peddle their influence in Olympia, and leaned on the spineless WDFW Commisssion, which promptly blamed Shanks and releived him of his duties. These people are a sham.

This is just another example of how the "General Fund" black hole swallows up money, and then weasel politicians decide who gets greased and who gets screwed. This system of appropriations is also a sham.

All I know is $150,000 is far less money than gets spent on a congressional race in this state. If any politician can justify hosing that kind of money away on yard signs and TV spots, but can't see keeping a hatchery open with it, then they are also a sham.

Hope I didn't ramble on too much.......it must be a lack of fishing lately.


Fish on..............