Hummmmm still no answers to my original questions! Lots of reaction in defense, but still no answers to my questions!

Grandpa, hear what you have just said! You said "Doesn't spell it out that way in the bill but that is how I understood the intent when PSA helped get it to a vote." Why was this keep so quite on this board if PSA wanted the sportsmens support? The "intent" is only about money, and nothing else!

Spawnout, you say; "last time I looked there were halibut, sturgeon, crab, steelhead, and salmon on that little card. Sounds like the money should go to pay for management and enhancement of all those species. Enforcement too. Hey, that sounds like the WDFW black hole"

Well maybe! When do you think that WDFW started charging you extra to catch a crab? You seem to be a really smart guy, so tell me, what did the WDFW do to enhance the crab or its fishery for the sportsmen? Oh, I forgot WDFW plants millions of crabs every year . . . yea, right!

The main reason why so many of our fish species are now endangered is directly related to the mismanagement of our WDFW, and other state and federal agencies that were supposed to protect them in the first place! Who do you think controlled the WDF all those years that the commercials racked our resources (I thought I herd you once say that you were a hatchery manager in Oregon)?

Don't forget, it was not that long ago that we had 2 entirely separate and different agencies (i.e. WDF, WDG). Wildlife (WDG) did care about our steelhead, and our game, but WDF only cared about the commercial industry then. Before you bark, you should do your homework and see where all the "old" directors of WDF had ended up after they retired from their state jobs!

Do you really think that the internal battle between the old WDF and the WDW are over and gone?

While you are trying to answer that one, Please tell me how you can explain your statement" And if we want to cover all the costs for running the black hole out of licenses be prepared to fork over $1000 or more a year". . . What about all the money that is spent on saving the butterfly's or the grasshoppers that everybody in the Seattle area wants to save? Do they pay for all the studies, court cases, and the other entire BS that our WDFW has to address? No, we have to pay for it all out of our wildlife funds!

Finally, you say that; "And by the way, WDFW runs on about 2 tenths of one percent of the state budget." Well, that sounds about right for what they do! About 90% of what they are getting paid to do, nature has done it for free for eons!!! They have mismanaged what nature has done for free, and we and the fish continue to pay for their errors. When will we ever learn?

O.K, go for it guys, I know that you just can't wait to attack me for what is the truth! Put your best spin on it, because you and I will be paying for it for a long . . . long time!

I know that my post will make many of you very unhappy, but I am willing to discuss our differences of opinions. WDFW is not a bad agency, but they have done some pretty bad things that I personally can document. So it's time for them to step up and do what is right without the sportsmen paying more for their mistakes!

Cowlitzfisherman