To start off. i have lived in the great state of Washington for 7 years and Fished none stop for the last 3 of them . I myself have started to curse the indians. 2 years ago going down in a boat say 22 nets in a 3/4 mile strech some acrossed each other leaveing only about a 7 ft spot of no net in the middle. i felt like a mouse in a maze. Now for the past couple of years they have closed the river in late part of the chum run for the steelie

Catch and release it just make you feel good at the end of the day

Hotrod2481,

This came up 13 months ago, and General 'Zog put his reply, along with many others...

It came up again last month, and I reposted his comments...

Here it is again:

For what it's worth...here's a post from General 'Zog from almost exactly one year ago today...

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I'll tell ya, folks, fishbreath is right on.
The Nisqually was the best fishing in the state in April. Better than anywhere on the OP, the Skagit, NO PLACE could touch the Nisko. True, we caught a unreal percentage of females. Rarely caught a buck, and not many trophy sized fish, but many days you could hook twenty steelhead floating from tank crossing to handicap. We used to fish an area we called Kahuna a few miles below Yelm. Magnificent. And yes, we killed a great number of natives...it was legal way back in the day.

What happened, and I know most of you don't want to hear this, but way too many female steelhead were killed (by sportsmen) when the river got very popular in the early 80's. You may thank Fishing and Hunting News...surprise..for making the Nisqually so f***ing popular and leading to the crash in native steelies. Sixty boats, every damned day killing their limits of hens. Do the math. Don't blame the Tribes, they rarely fished back in late March/April then.

I would give anything to fish the Nisqually again in April. Right, Woody?

Bill.

Here's the link to that thread, too...

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=011876#000014

Fish on...

Todd.