Originally Posted By: AP a.k.a. Kaiser D
Baitman, there is so much emotion in what you type. I appreciate the passion but, it may be time to take a breath full of dispensary smoke and appreciate what you have/had rather than what you aren't getting. I just don't understand how you can be "truly, truly devastated" after an unbelievable season. The idea of always having "more, more, more" is partly what got us in this jam. You/We actually got far more than what was originally agreed upon.

Just because you don't like something doesn't make it unfair or wrong. Sure, it "sucks" but that is a different thing than someone victimizing or knowingly wronging you.

Wishing us both a few more shiny ones before Sunday's sunset!

-AP


Incorrect on all counts. You can't say "you got your fish" when at the end of the day, most serious anglers would prefer the scenario I laid out: a more measured season vs. the feast then famine of this season.

This is recreational fishing which is more about opportunity than harvest. Commercials are about harvest. I MOST CERTAINLY never "agreed upon" what we got this year. Sure it was good, but I'd trade it in a second for a full season. I do not mind skunkings as long as I have a chance to go out and try again.

Like alot of guys on here, I view fishing as more of a religion than a pastime. So while you may not feel it, I do in fact reserve the right to be devastated by NO LEGITIMATE FISHING OPTIONS IN OUR REGION FOR THE NEXT TWO AND A HALF MONTHS (an issue that goes beyond saltwater). If that doesn't seem wrong and unfair to you...I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion. Google it.

To add insult to injury, WDFW claims to have a mandate of providing opportunity. Why bother when it's just lip service? All they have done is reduce opportunity.

If the aggregate method mentioned earlier in this thread is a viable method of management, AND it would have retained our opportunity, then the closure can be viewed as artificial and bureaucratic. I realize a government agency can't be expected to change its management system mid-=season, but the reality of the current model is that it is based on 1970s coded wire tag data. The modeling system is fundamentally broken, which means this could have been avoided if WDFW had updated their methodology sooner. Yet another dropped ball.