Marty ... isn't the Upper Hoh wide open for fall salmon?? Wasn't it for a number of years before the closure for a couple?? We've gone rounds on this one before.

Why are there no C&R seasons / areas on salmon?? Granted I kill some of the salmon we catch (as I recently mentioned in previous posts, we also let many go too), but why is it that the state feels that salmon fisheries must be catch and kill?? Lots of other areas don't ... the Kenai Peninsula, with the Kenai River itself perhaps the best example (with studies done on it).

The same concerns for the fish (rigging, where you fish) would be just as important in such a fishery.

The point here is pretty plain and simple ... a released fish has at least a 90% better chance of making it to spawn that a whacked one .. period!