Originally Posted By: BW
That may well be, but if your plan is to open a season for everyone north of Seattle and let everyone else go pound sand so you can have your fun, well good luck with that. You were doing so well until that last line. Now as a member of the board of directors of the South Sound Chapter of PSA I expect I will have to bring this up at the next board meeting just as a heads up.

What do you think we will say?


Pretty much what the Gig Harbor chapter will probably say. Nuts!!

There is still a cadre of small boat guys who fish winter blackmouth as weather permits although loss of launch sites in Pierce County is making it more difficult.

If South Sound was to have a season two months long (or less) targeting mature summer Chinook you would see even less in the way of facilities meaning less access meaning less participation meaning fewer licenses sold.

But you might well see more casual fishers jamming the only all tide public ramp on Pierce County's east side - which is already a cluster on summer week-ends.

Trailer from South Sound to Everett? Yes, sure - might as well just put a bullet in your head and save the gas money.

No, what we need is a more vibrant blackmouth fishery achieved through better rearing/release programs and (gasp) predator control.
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