Rojoband, The scope of this closure was and has been widely understood by all those involved at WDFW & on the Advisory group. It's an unfortunate reality that gamefish are wrapped up in the ESA permits for salmon, and that anywhere a potential impact to an ESA listed species is present, the permit must be in place for fisheries on other species to occur. Hopefully as part of an overhaul to the NOF process, this issue can be decoupled and parsed out in some way.

I stood on the banks of the Sky yesterday evening and gazed at the river for a while. I saw a few fish roll while lots of emotions stirred.