Everybody pay attention, The word on the street is a possible main stream columbia river closure due at end of the week because the sportsman have taken 3500 fish and the commercials took an extra 4000 fish. I Guess there is a meeting somewhere on wensday so we had better find out where and make a presence there if we hope to continue to fish on the largest run of spring chinook since the late 30's.
I think this is absolutley ridiculous that the sportsman get dinged for the commercials greed!!!!!
WE need to do smething and fast.
THanks Superfly

This would really be a bummer, the warden has given me weekend passes for the next two months!! Please, somebody tell me where this meeting is!!!!!!!!

[ 04-02-2001: Message edited by: FISHNBRAD ]

its hard to understand this when all the hatchary fish are clubbed at the end anyway with water in a extreme condition. the % of smot that surive are to be low.... hatchary should be able to spawn....

I hear you Brad. I too have paid my dues for awhile and have been readying the truck for springer camp 2001....

That is just great. I put togeather a crew for saturday and now it might get shut down...Go figure.

Well guy's I hope this is just a late April fools joke. If it is true they would have already shut down that netting scum, but a friend of mine told me that their netting as i'm typing this post. Whatever the case is I'm launching on Saturday and fishing for something somewhere.

driftboat keep your boys in fishingmode cause were going reguardless. see ya there I'll talk to ya this week, we can make a plan of attack.

You said this was street talk and that's just what I think it is . Yakima Herald reported in todays paper that it's the largest run since they've began keeping records. The numbers you descibed are way to small to have such a big effect. 365,000 is a lot of springers. No desrespect but I hope I'm right. The Duck(Jim Marquis)

Well guy's I hope this is just a late April fools joke. If it is true they would have already shut down that netting scum, but a friend of mine told me that their netting as i'm typing this post. Whatever the case is I'm launching on Saturday and fishing for something somewhere.

driftboat keep your boys in fishingmode cause were going reguardless. see ya there I'll talk to ya this week, we can make a plan of attack.

April 1 was yesterday.

Dudes, don't get your tits in a ringer, even if they close the main Columbia below Bonneville, the Wind, Drano Lake, Little White Salmon, Yakima and Klicktat will still all be open for springers. And I haven't heard anything about an early closre of the mainstem... ..

Well, That would make perfect sense. Better get used to it, guys. We just don't live in a state that is in the business of making sport fishermen happy. Once the state has your lisence money, they could give a $hit about weather or not your as a sportsman have an opportunity to actually catch fish. Sort of makes a guy wonder why he bothers to follow all the regulations. Maybe all those Hillbillies I see on the rivers, snagging fish and keeping three times their daily limits are actually the enlightened ones. At least they're getting their money's worth, so to speak. Just a thought, not a real good one, but a thought nontheless.

Spoke with a friend who knows some of the WDFW officials. WDFW and ODFW are working hard to keep it open 7 days a week through the end of April. The real bad guys in this for a lack of a better term is the NMFS, there the ones who will make the call. A compromise position is to cut it back to 3 days a week. We should all know later this week. I sure hope it does stay open, hooked my first springer ever this past Saturday, man was that fish full of piss and vinegar. Had an extra fin so it was released unharmed.
Good luck and tight lines, Jeff