grandpa.

The tribes have a right to harvest those given to them by the court of the United States. I hate the fact that they chose to act upon that right and I desperatly wish they wouldn't. However as a sport angler I have no influence over what they do or the legality of it.
With sport fishermen however i might have some influence and potential influence of the legality if wild harvest. I feel the same way about the columbia river gillnetters. and i feel exactly the same way about sport fishermen. No one should be killing these fish. Any user group we can keep from killing these fish is a good thing. I totally do not buy into the "if we don't get them they will philosophy" I think that way of thinking is morally bankrupt.
An analogy
Hmm that sleeping hobo there has a dollar bill hanging out of his pocket, I should grab it because if i don't someone else will.

I don't think thats the attitude sport anglers should have. If we have that attitude then we have no legitimacy to any requests for the end of tribal netting.
It's like going to a gunfight and telling the other guy to drop his gun which is pointed at you while you have yours pointed at him.

Still no one has answered my basic question. With so many hatcher fish avalible for harvest years around why kill a wild one??

And why is it I offer any type of compromise at all that I am met with contempt. It seems that you a re only interested in having it the way you want it and nothing else. My way or the highway so to speak.
I have offered many compromises in the past and been basically blown off. since a compromise isn't workable why shouldn't i take a hard line aganst wild harvest? If your not interested in reason why should I be?
Wild fish are more important than your ego, more important than you having a full belly and vastly more important than a trophy over anyones fireplace.
Harvesting wild fish is stupid therefore anyone who harvests a wild steelhead is doing a stupid thing. Stupid is as stupid does so anyone who harvests a wild fish is therefore stupid. Don't like it??? TOUGH.