Herschal and Local,
I have disagreement with both of your lines of thinking. Herschal, the Nooch is way to small a river to be blastin up past Black Creek in a sled, period. I own a sled, fish the nooch and would support a ban on power boats upstream from Black Creek. As for the local issue, I live in Olympia and consider the Nooch, Satsop and the Chehalis all to be local rivers to me. I do take out what I bring in and then some. I have read the past threads on sled bans in both the Nooch and the Satsop, not sure if they are referring to the entire Satsop or just above forks. If it was above the forks I could live with that. There is plenty of good river and holes downstream from there to fish it in a sled. The Hump was mentioned also and I can't see were they (drift boaters) have complaints there, unless your talking up by the hatchery. We all need to figure out how to fish together and get along.
Tight lines, Jeff