Eliminate "mandatory Steelhead retention" YES
this anti fishing law has to go! They lifted it when wild runs were weak?


Eliminate "must keep trout caught on bait" YES
I have been saying this is the dumbest rule for years. You can catch ESA listed Salmon all day long on bait, but we are supposed to count hatchery trout towards limit when fishing for something else?

10 fish Kokanee. YES
Most lakes are over planted on the westside.

"Dumping chum or garbage in ponds to attract fish". HELL NO!!!


I am trying to understand how throwing a blanket statewide on biologists management decisions per lake simplifies anything. I don't think the new WDFW is any smarter than they were. Is the goal to have less people look at the regulations pamphlet?

If they want to simplify regulations then a app to look up the regulations by body of water or gps might do that.