I live in Central Park also, and learned how to fish on the Nooch when I was a youngan, still am a youngan, but when I was quite younger than I am now. I have seen it change over the years, exspecially summer runs! Eric, wrote an article in 1988 in STS that was about this subject, and that was in 1988, 12 years later, nothing has improved! I fish the Nooch from bank and from my drift boat. I have fished it in my sled also. I don't feel that a total ban of all sleds is necesary. I do feel that from the Intake up should be no motorized boats. I have never had any encounters with a sled that has pissed me off enough to try to get revenge the following season, but I have seen some idiot boat operators run up runs that had a bunch of reds in it and stir them all up. The Wynoochee river is a great river to fish for almost all of the species of salmonoides. Look at all of the people that respond to Wynoochee topics on this bb, holy hell if everyone on this board that responds to similar posts about the Nooch fishes it, no wonder why it is so crowded, and this is only a small percentage of people! The river is really really crowded, bottom line. I just feel that by spreading out the crowds, it would make to a better day fishing. So lets work together and see what comes about us.

Thanks,
Andy Matthews