#100092 - 11/28/00 10:38 AM
Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Egg
Registered: 11/19/00
Posts: 1
Loc: Seattle, WA, King
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Supplemental Selective Fishery Season, A Proposal
Closure of the catch-and-release, selective gear rules season on North Puget Sound rivers compels the thereby deprived anglers and guides to petition for relief. In lieu of such closure, the Washington Fish and Wildlie Commission is requested to consider and approve, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife is tasked to devise and implement a Supplemental Selective Fishery Season on the Olympic Peninsula.
Proposal: Open under "catch-and-release only," selective gear rules from March 1 to April 30, 2001 would be the following rivers: the Quillayute River System (Bogachiel, Calawah,Dickey, Sol Duc and Quillayute); and the Hoh, Queets, Clearwater, upper Quinalt and Humptulips Rivers.
Rationale: Accustomed after twenty years to a quality spring steelhead season, anglers and their guides from the state's population core deserve an inviting fishery as solace for sport lost. The designated Olympic rivers will experience inordinate fishing pressure from anglers displaced from Puget Sound waters. The proposed Supplemental Selective Fishery Season would limit expected impact on the resource yet promote maximum recreational opportunity.
Rather than diminish, let us increase what is right about fishing in Wahington. Our state fish is too valuable to be caught only once.
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#100093 - 11/28/00 01:30 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Returning Adult
Registered: 03/07/99
Posts: 167
Loc: Sequim, WA, USA
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"Wildlie" Commission?? Good one, John, intended or not!
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#100096 - 11/28/00 07:54 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 03/07/99
Posts: 1440
Loc: Wherever I can swing for wild ...
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I agree and always supported the need to be proactive and protect the peninsula streams through C&R fisheries. And I will continue to support that. I was just hoping we didn't have to do it to protect them from lost opportunity on other streams. I also can't hide the fact that I'm also disappointed in the increased guide pressure these streams will see from all the displaced guides. I don't like it but,unfortunely it's going to happen.
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#100097 - 11/28/00 08:14 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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River Nutrients
Registered: 04/25/00
Posts: 5014
Loc: East of Aberdeen, West of Mont...
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Eric.....agree with you on this one!!!
Beezer:
I hear you talking but after 35 years in Grays Harbor I see the impact of the suburb people that come by the 100's to all the rivers of the Olympic Peninsula. Over crowding, trash left, boat launches jammed full, native stocks of salmon and steelhead at a historial low level. Many of the rivers are now "guided to death", got to get those fish for thier "paying clients", ugh!!! Now some of the peninsula rivers are just as bad as the S.W. Washington rivers. Takes the fun out of fishing but I'll still be there...
"Worse day sport fishing, still better than the best day working".......
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#100098 - 11/28/00 10:03 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Spawner
Registered: 04/23/00
Posts: 737
Loc: vancouver WA USA
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AS for southwest Washington..
There are no streams here that can provede a quality experience like the puget sound and OP rivers can. Rivers here typicaly only get a coupkle hundred wild winter steelhead a piece. And some of our rivers are completely closed during parts of march and april. to but it simply our rivers don't have any fish and are not viable high quality fisheries. The washougal,lewis,kalama,cowlts, toutle,elochomin,grays,naselle have no native runs worh the time and effort of a guide. Otherwise i'd have a job
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#100099 - 11/28/00 10:10 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Smolt
Registered: 08/16/99
Posts: 92
Loc: b'ham,WA.
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As a Bellingham boy got me a Canadian license righty here in my back pocket
Later
Paul
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#100100 - 11/28/00 10:20 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Dazed and Confused
Registered: 03/05/99
Posts: 6367
Loc: Forks, WA & Soldotna, AK
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I'd be all for it The shift is going to take place wheteher we like it or not ... we've seen it with salmon and more with the wild steelies in recent years (interestingly enough, a thought towards another thread comes to mind ... hatchery steelhead traffic has plummeted here over the last decade)) ... we need to make an adjustment. Part of the new group's formation is the need for this.
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#100101 - 12/17/00 05:56 PM
Re: Supplemental Selective Fishery Season
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Parr
Registered: 12/09/00
Posts: 43
Loc: Tacoma, WA USA
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John, you are more than right on.
As a former Skagit guide and someone who has fished the Penninsula for decades, we need to protect what we have left. If even half of the anglers that used to frequent the Skagit/Sauk travel west, holy $#@* the pressure will be unbearable. Not only would John's proposal protect all wild returnees, it would open up more water and give us another few weeks. Best of both worlds.
I have copied this proposal and I plan to send it off to the WDFW heads soon.
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