ok Rob I will answer your question.

There is alot of people out there that enjoy fishing and also (shame on us!) enjoy eating fresh fish, not the crap they supply in the stores. Why wild fish? because of the "enjoy fishing part of it".

Sure there are plenty of hatchery fish out there to eat but It kind of hard to enjoy fishing when half the time your tangled up every five cast by some greenhorn, or your have to fish shoulder to shoulder with people who "set the hook" three or four times in one cast, or how about the morons that wade out where the fish are lying, or idiots using planner boards in prime drift water , or fly fishermen who just watched a river ran through it and like to watch there flourescent line whipping back and forth through the air more than actually working on the presentation, or getting snagged evry three cast and hollering fish on while playing there huge rockfish E.T.C....................................................................................................................

Hatchery fish attract hords because they are so easy to catch or snag.

Wild fish on the other hand are virtually ignored by the newbies and snaggers. I can have several hundered yards of bank to myself or fish with other knowledgeable and courteous fishermen.

Selfish? you might say. Ya I guess a little bit.
But so are the catch and release fanactics who want everything there way regardless of effectiveness or how it affects other people.

Face it ,without wild fish I am screwed to. We can have are fish and eat them too, but we need to act according to effectiveness not this "have to get our house in order first" B.S

There are things that we can target other than nets that would help the fish return, though nets would be the #1 priority. The state really screwed themselves when they just gave the tribes casinos. They had a huge bargaining chip. In colorado the tribes are suing the state for 28 million acres but they say they will drop the suit if the can have one casino!