Its obviously #1. It is clear that despite a declining interst by WDFW in the sport fleet on WB, that it is growing year by year. There was a little more than a week of above average fishing in 2011, mind you on a huge run. THere was huge particiaption. The commmercial fishing again took the starch out of what should have been a stellar month long wide open bite and confined it to the period just before and after labor day. I am sure if we'd had decent opportiunty for all of august instead of the last few days we'd have caught twice that given the size of the fleet.

The WB fishery may satisfy you by filling the gap between B10 and grays harbor nicely, but many of us are not happy with that.

The rest of the month was a shadow of what it could been had the netters not wiped the bay clean for the majority of august.

The irony is, the netters really didn't get that many more fish, they just took them from in front of us.