I guess you can look at it that way, Or, I can hook 5 Steelhead, land them in under 5 minutes.....in the water and they go free while the bank fisherman or Fly guy spends 30 minutes trying to land the same 20 lber running up and down the bar or bank and takes the life right out of them.
Watched it many times on the Skagit and Skykomish, I have even run over and picked up bankies with large Steelhead on and take them out and chase down the fish to land it or release it.
The whole motorized boat things is just a way for one user group to feel better standing in the water....alone. Next they will outlaw drift boats because they catch more fish, where does it end, with one guy permitted on each gravel bar for 2 hours at a time and the whole time the Indians run by with their drift nets?
If it is that big an issue, shut it completely down and let the Indian have it until they either manage it correctly or the fish are gone. Of course, if it gets shut down you would hope the Indians would leave it alone and let the river heal, but not much chance of that.
And before someone goes off about Indian bashing, I have been around them for 60 years and watched what "their" nets do to the Skagit, don't care how you spin it, a full net of Native Steelhead is not good for river...and when it is 15 nets, it just makes it that much worse and that is what you find in the Skagit every year.