the limited entry as I understand it only applies to the saltwater and lower Columbia.

this keeps the rod hours down on the ocean for the limited salmon available, due to the fact that many private boat operators in Washington will not go into the ocean.

historically my grandpa like most other peoples fished from small open boats. inside Puget Sound and the strait's. they went to Westport and took charters...

Oregon has had a history of fishing the open ocean in small boats. C-dory's and the like came from those fisheries. small boats designed for big water. it is only the last 20-30 years that the huge fleet of large private boats have hit the ocean in Washington.

the rule could be a bad rule at this point, I don't know. but it was designed to lengthen the seasons, by limiting the number of rods on the water each day.