No! no ban on bait, if you think fishermen using bait in the summer, kill alot of smolts, they dont even come CLOSE to what the cormorants take in one day!! been on the river lately??
yes, it would be a minutely small fraction of the smolts that wouldnt make it to sea, but bait fisherman arent the culprit.
I rarely use bait, but that has nothing to do with it, it should be our choice.
for years my favorite river allowed bait in the summer, all of a sudden a few years ago, some upity fly fishermen got into somebodys pocketbook, and now there is a ban on bait, June 1 through Nov 31st
I for one have had enough! with all the gillnetting, mismanagement,smoke and mirrors and finger pointing.
sport fisherman using bait seriuosly impacting adult returns?? hardly
NO!! Washington

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