Has anyone seen the new regulations on the Hoh. On the Hoh, a hatchery steelhead is now considered a fish with a dorsal fin shorter than 2 and one quater inches because the USFWS had trouble marking hatchery steelhead.
This is such bs for two reasons. First of all, are fisherman are now going to have to manhandle the fish to see if its a hatchery fish. Holding the fish, holding up its dorsal fin and measuring it puts alot of stress on fish plus this is going to allow for people to come up with excuses to kill more than their 2 wild steelhead because measuring the dorsal is not an exact science. Does this seem to be more anti-wild steelhead realease regulations to you like it does to me? The new regulations go into effect Nov 17. It seems a little late now to write them and try to fight it but we should all write them and ask who came up with such a stupid rule.
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Ryan