I spoke with Makah fisheries personal last summer to find out if it was true that the Makah tribe is no longer selling licenses to fish from shore on tribal land, they said yes that is true, rumors of "coolers full of perch' were reported, I told him that in all the years of fishing there I never saw that. He wasn't impressed, my opinion is that like the Quinalt tribe they are restricting access to tribal lands for pure payback for imagined slights recently, another theory floated by someone I spoke to is that they wish to "impress Washington" (the feds) with non-cooperation. Just my two cent, but I fished off that jetty for years, springtime the kelp wasn't as bad as later in the season. Westport jetty is a better jetty for what it's worth. Bob R
MISINFORMED & UNTRUE. Non tribal fishing permits are still being sold. I have enjoyed fishing out there for about a dozen years, therefore I felt it pertinent to take the high road and make a call to Makah Fisheries this morning. Very friendly people over there that had all the answers.
The gal at Fisheries explained that they have and will continue to sell licenses as always, and that there was a problem with the printers for the 2014 licenses (none available for January). Fisheries was issuing licenses (I guess scratch out the 2013 & write in 2014? lol), but Washburns was not issuing licenses until they got in the new batch. So if you were out there in January, I could see how you might think they're not issuing em.
It took me longer to type this up than to find a phone number, make the call, and get an answer.
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