Originally Posted By: Myassisdragon
I'm backing the director. We backed off, capitulated, crimped our hooks, given up fishing, played the stupid clipper game to placate the esa, planted trees, replaced culverts, cooperated with all for the last 40 years, played the assanine eat wild only with the commercials, and listened to emoto-science about the hatcheries killing our steelhead, we've gone along with the commercializations of steelhead, so screw - em, and not just the tribes. So let them close the puyallup to the flossers ya-all dispose, dump all the smolt production and end the salmon hatcherys that the state manage, so there will be no crap hatchery fish trying to stir up the wild gravels that the numbnuts at the nwfs are so worried over. Enuff already, shut it all down!

It's time...


So you are backing a play that also closes down these (this list is hot off the press from here: http://nwsportsmanmag.com/editors-blog/some-puget-sound-waters-to-close-over-salmon-season-impasse/

... this morning, it appears that a wider range of fisheries where anglers might encounter listed Puget Sound Chinook and steelhead will also be affected.

sea-run cutthroat along Puget Sound beaches, which are open now, the Skykomish and upper Skagit, which are slated to open June 1 for summer steelhead and spring Chinook, respectively;

the North Fork Stillaguamish for summer steelhead and numerous streams scheduled to open the first Saturday in June for trout;

the Skagit on June 16 for sockeye.

and Lakes Washington and Sammamish would be included as well, as would the Baker River and Lake.

... I'm starting to wonder if WDFW was upfront that this ESA coverage issue over the salt salmon folks not agreeing would affect all the steelhead fisheries and some others that folks who fish aren't represented at NOF.