The reason that the rivers are closed during May is because it gives spawning steelhead a chance to do their thing and remain unmolested. It also allows for smolt migration. Don't get me wrong, I would give my left nut in order to be able to fish during Memorial Day weekend.

You have to realize that there are a lot of late winter run spawners caught on the June 1 opener and if you have hundreds of newbies fishing on Memorial Day weekend, then you have masses of ignorant people fishing who would probably catch and whack a lot of these spawners and downstream fish.

As far as the WDFW is concerned, I believe that our fisheries management sucks river rocks.
We need new managers bad.

How about Bob Ball for Governor?
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