I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion but I would vote no C&R season at all. As was pointed out, the tribe will take an unknown amount to get their spring chinook. The run will get hit harder than we expect and there won't be a run to talk about in a few years. We've had zero success maintaining a wild run with the "minumum escapement" strategy.

If we leave it alone and can keep the tribes nets out of the river, there will still be fish in the river for years to come. If we let our greed get the best of us, this run be gone before we know it.. The fish just won't survive the combined tribal/rec mortality. I don't care whether you limit boats or bait or just let old fukers fish it- any combination with nets will doom the run- period!

The good ole days of spring fishing are no more. It's really sad but it's the way it is.