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Originally posted by gooose:
Kept my opinion to myself on this one but time to enter the fray. I fill my freezer with salmon every year....what I don't freeze I can or pickle. Can't see the need given the huge availability of salmon nearly every year for anyone to desire to kill a wild steelhead? Only arguments I've seen so far for killing wild steel is ones based on principles of "Right's to kill before someone else does." How sad. There's always going to be hatchery steelies available (another argument for later) so why can't these satisfy the need to kill? Is it an issue of bragging rights? Buy a camera and a cloth tape measure. I'd be in hog heaven to see our upper watersheds saturated with wild spawners to the point where they actually have to compete for mates and spawning gravel.

Gooose rolleyes


Did you even read my post? Apparently not.

I'm not advocating C&K, I'm telling you that if there is mandatory C&R, more natives will be killed in every river system than there is currently. Do you want the tribes netting every single day? I don't. How many natives do you think will be killed by 7 days of netting compared to 7 days of sportfishing? I'm not trying to say, the tribes can kill them so I can too. I'm saying, and history proves me correct 100%, that tribal netting will do far more damage than sport fishing every could. But maybe I'm the only one who wants more natives to survive. . .