Please excuse the oversight Plunker. But I have read in a number of posts the utterly lame excuse of C&R mortality to justify bonking nates. Even they don't need a scientific study to know that approximately 100% of bonked, cooked, & eaten nates die; compare that to 7%. - I also have read in many posts here the general discust with the performance of both politicians & the WDFW fisheries decisions concerning continued harvest of some native steelhead stocks. I consider myself a Northwest native rather than an Oregonian (with the possible exception of Beavs vs Dawgs). So please don't take the following as a state comparison; only a fisheries management comparison. The ODWF made a late but correct decision in recent years to no longer allow any harvest of wild steelhead statewide. At the same time all hatchery steelhead smolts (I call them hats- you call them brats?) are fin-clipped for managed harvest. The same program is now going into effect for Spring Chinooks. Along with that Governor Kitzhaber, an avid angler, has instituted unpresidented statewide broad spectrum co-operation between anglers, landowners, and industry to improve spawning habitat. He calls it the Oregon Salmon Plan, which has kept the Feds at bay concerning implimentation of the Fed. Endangered Species Act from further curtailing fishing opportunity. And most importantly, this combo will give the nates a good chance to recover given time! So, what the hell is going on in the Washington fisheries decision rooms?? How could they not have learned by years of mistakes that ALL nates need long term protection for vital recovery? I certainly hope that a strong & powerful voice emerges in such form as the Wash. Anglers Alliance to get right in the faces of the powers in control of the future of state fish resource health! Hey, they must have learned what is right for these causes in recent years. They have Oregon managers as an appropriate example to follow. Who has got these guys by the balls?? And why? I'd like to know and hear suggestions of what can be done about it. You have heard the WAA suggestion. If you lack optimism to change the status quo of Indian netting (which I understand better since joining this site, but am still not convinced to be hopeless), DON'T lack optimism and effort to change the status quo of state mismanagement. Their wrongs aren't protected by outdated treaties and Judge Boldt mis-decision. Get in their faces for proper change. We've wittnessed it happen here. - Steve