Let me ask you this, Curt - if someone high up at WDFW decided that allowing fishing for warmwater species in Lk Washington and Sammamish had exactly zero impact on the the ESA listed species and was willing to put their job on the line to defend that decision, could that fishery have been offered/preserved?

BTW - I have always valued your input here, as you deliver facts without too much emotion, and you tell it like it is, and for that I thank you for participating in these threads. WDFW is definitely a poorer institution without you there - you, too, Salmo G.