Originally Posted By: _WW_


In the spring of 2013 I tried to get the Wildcat Steelhead Club involved in our pursuit to remove the Skagit from the Puget Sound listing and restore our catch and release season. I was told, by the president of the club, that they did not support catch and release steelhead fishing on the Skagit.

It seems kind of ironic that they fully supported, and participated in, a catch and release program that released fish to the hatchery in a failed brood-stock program, but are against releasing them to reproduce naturally.



At this point, fighting for the continued harvest of steelhead while being against CnR is an extremist position. Doing this while plenty of salmon harvest (meat) is still available makes it even more incomprehensible.