Good comments, Coho I agree with your point, but I disagree that a swinging fly is more liable to be swallowed. I love to catch steelhead on the fly, I still drift fish for the winter hatchery run, but fly fishing is my prefered method the rest year. I agree that we should not make restricions that divide one method over the other. I also think the walking or fishing on redds argument is bs, Most FF's I know are pretty ethical about this. If one would like to disagree I wonder how much anchor dragging contributes. Not bigger rivers like Skagit but, I can think of a few of mid to smaller size rivers that would lend itself useful to boats as transportation only regulation(for example the Green). I'm sure a lot bankies would appreciate such a regulation.