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Originally posted by Rob Allen:
If someone catches a state recors steelhead they should WANT to let it go!!!

The rest of the world has accepted catch and release as a valid and effective way of maintaining high quality fisheries with limited populations of fish.. Why is it so hard to wrap your brain around the concept of it being a good idea here too???

you can catch and kill all the hatchery fish you want to. Every person in the state has more than sufficient opportunity to catch and eat hatchery steelhead. Harvesting a wild one is a stupid thing to do PERIOD!

There are NO healthy runs od wild steelhead in Washington inspite of what WDFW says..
anyone who harvests a wild steelhead shows by their actions that the future of wild steelhead is NOT important to them.. The act and the words are at odds with one another and your actions spak louder than your words... Period! it is impoosible to have it both ways.. In my opinion this ban on killing wild fish should be permanent with no option of ever having it listed ever under any circumstances.. and if that means you can't keep a fish from a healthy run.. well too stinking bad.. I am sick of the mentality of people who think the only good fish is the one they keep in their freezer till it's burnt..

ok now call me all kinds of names ,, make references to PETA call me a liberal and whatever else you want I don't care. you have had your way for 100 years.. The tables have turned and now we are doing things in a way thats better for fish .. Deal with it...
I just cant say anything to that besides wow thats what I thought. Anybody with half a brain can see you dont give a damn about sportsfishing after that response.

You guys just cant get it threw your thick heads and inflated ego's you havent done a single dang thing to actually save the fish until the nets are gone!

We have skip step 1 right to step 2!

Thats like giving george a blood transfusion without stitching his severed aorta! The nurse feels good, and when the doctor tells the family he completed a blood transfusion they feel relieved. But george is still bleeding to death dammit! Then when the doctor tell the family george died of global warming they will believe him!

Your all like broken tape recorders spitting out the same feel good nonsense over and over.

Fact: regulating the sports fishermen does not work.

Fact: getting rid of the nets does! Its proven!

Fact: the game wardens association is cringing right now because there workload just increased 10 fold and they know they wont be able to keep up with all the new state sponsored poachers!

Fact I havent kept a wild steelhead in years.

Fact: I just want our fish back!


Surecatch,

Your BC argument doesnt fly with me.
I have learned that the tribes in BC are much more heavily regulated. and there are rivers that you can keep nates in.

Also, I think many more fish will die. I have seen to many times people releasing fish after fish after fish with no regard of there survalbility. When it should be take your one or two fish and go home, people are killing many fish throughout the day catch and releasing.