Wow. I thought I understood the poorly-written version well enough until I read the posts about jacks.

I thought jacks were all immature males that couldn't spawn. Reading that there are rules in place to protect more than one wild jack from being harvested tells me I was wrong. I'd always heard in discussion that there wasn't a great reason to limit jack harvest.

Are jacks capable of spawning? If so, I guess it would explain why one wild jack would represent a limit on wild fish for the day. However, I didn't gather that a limit of jacks could only include one wild fish. I didn't get that at all from the rules, and I bet a lot of wild jacks got conked this year that shouldn't have been. I'm starting to think the rules may be too complex to express in a manner that would encourage any judge to prosecute a rules violation. At some point, too many rules undermines the purpose for making rules in the first place. We may have arrived in the Chehalis system.