I used to fish the Trask all day, on a hole were big chinook would lay, ...my girlfriend asked if I'd move away, like an idiot I said "OK"...and God dammit the makes me mad!!!!

As I was driving down hospital hill in Aberdeen after finishing surgery today, I was thinking about the gorgeous fall afternoon, the blue-bird skies, and how pleasant it might have been to chase three tides over mill-pond seas on what should have been the VERY best day of salmon fishing of the season in Grays Harbor. What a glory day it would have been.

Thanks WDFW, thanks.... for an opportunity loss that can NEVER be recovered or replaced. Think about it, folks.... for as long as we live, we will never ever get this day back. EVER! The license-buying public is getting royally screwed. In fairness, there ought to at least be a pro-rated rebate on the annual license to offset the opportunity losses that we are forced to swallow each time WDFW does something like this.

I'm figuring I got 16-18 good years left... MAX! Each and every opportunity to get out and enjoy the activity I love the most is something very precious to me. In this life, the raw truth is that there are no "make up days" for golden opportunities lost... they are simply gone.

My dissatisfaction meter with WDFW is at red-line as I type this. Conservation and allocation recommendations ignored... a forgotten constituency of frustrated anglers.... irreplacable opportunities stolen from the recreational users.... this is the irrefutable legacy of the state's present-day fish managers.

AND GODAMMIT THAT MAKES ME MAD!

fantastic post, this deserves the main board though.

why post this over here doc?

Great post Doc.

that was awesome Doc............well said.

It's on the main board in the Chehalis protest thread.

The only reason I put it here is for the punchline.

That definately was an awesome post.

But, PLEASE, come to the WDFW meetings and give us your input as it is important in helping us with the desision making process. Right. <sarcasum>

Thats a great post.. but I don't get the part where you only have 16-18 years left to fish. I envision you as one of those crusty old bastards that will be fishing well into his 80's.. you know, like Dave Vedder

I found a picture of Dave from his 50th high school reunion.

Sol, I think you may need counceling.

Dave will probably outlive my sorry a$$. Just turned 44 on Friday which officially puts me past the two-thirds mark if the family tree has anything to do with it.

Pretty hard to fight genetics. No male in my family history has EVER lived past 65. My oldest brother (47 in Nov) will probably be the first in our generation to try. If he crumps at 65 or earlier, I know I'm toast!

He's the laid-back happy-go-lucky one of the bunch. I'm more of the the spastic, Type-A dude. He is happily married, and I just got raked over in a very stressful divorce. I spend every weekend in horrible I-5 traffic. My personal and professional life is almost constantly running at red-line... each day ends on bare fumes, most often typing something on this keyboard.

So like I said, I'm lookin' at 16-18 good years tops. And with all the $hit coming down the WDFW pipeline lately, it ain't helping matters any.

OK end of rant... sorry folks.

Damn, JG... past midnight again!