salmontackler, In response to your posts I have to disagree with you on the eating quality of these fish. As one of the other posts said these fish eat fine up to the last part of June.Obviously, these same fish would be better yet fresh out of the salt but that isn't an option since its closed down there. Secondly, I have to agree with you one the barbless hooks. I have no problem at all fishing with single siwash's. I was suprized when the rules stated that we could use trebs.. That should be fixed! That way all you flyfisherman out there who want to have there private trout fishery wouldn't have much of an argument.I'm not at all suprized to hear some grumblings from another user group.To bad!!I think it is quite an opportunity to be able to fish a river that hasn't been opened for 40yrs.. As far as damage to the resource I feel that it is minimal at best(personal Opinion). Also, the DFW hasn't probably sold a lot more licenses but I drove the entire stretch(what you can) last weekend and saw numerous bank anglers fishing. So I have to believe some of these people bought a license to take advantage of a unique opportunity.