This may sound like a really crazy idea but I say that we as the sportfishermam who care about the future of our wild fisheries take over the WDFW. From all the past decisions ever made by the WDFW it is very easily to tell that they are far from the educated sort. It wouldn’t take much.
But first I say, like our own American Revolution, we must perform some mass tar and featherings. Those have always intrigued me and I think it would be fun. Am I right?
Then we must have something similar to the Boston Tea Party…how about we break into the WDFW, carry away the boxes and boxes of checks written to the WDFW from the Indians, and the commercial fisherman and the loggers and dump it all into Capitol Lake.
Now we are getting somewhere, I guess, I hope.
Obviously though they wouldn’t listen to us, so an all out revolution would be the last resort. As we are calmly protesting and burning WDFW flags outside their office Olympia, they would fire the first shot because they are rattled with fear that someone in the public knows more than they do. I don’t think guns would be necessary, how about we gather up a bunch of Loomis Backbouncing rods and attach 6 oz. Cannonballs and fire continuously away with our Calcutta 400’s loaded with 100 pound Power Pro. As we dig and we decide to starve them to death, it takes a lot longer than expected because of the incredible surplus of Puget Sound chinook given to them by commercial fisherman and the loads of Native Steelhead given to them by the Indians. We then start plastering them with jigs tied on 3/0 Gammas with those super x-large eyes. And then what to do you know here comes Bob, leading another group of sportsmen across Puget Sound in is Wild Hair just like George Washington. They cant take it anymore they are sickened by their losses, starved because they have run out of illegal fish to eat and they cant handle the fact that there are so many sportsfisherman that want to realease fish.
In we push and unanimously elect Bob to the head of the WDFW, the peoples department not the special interests groups one.
And now finally our fish have a chance in this state!!!!!
This may sound like a crazy idea, but it is all-possible and imagine the outcome:
Wild Rivers Boiling With Wild Fish
Maybe Someday, Hopefully…and I will start on tying those really large jigs tonight, those things hurt…trust me!!
Tight Lines
Ryan S. Petzold
“Special”

LOL, ROF (Rolling on Floor)

Sounds good to me!!!!! Can I throw the first one? I have been waiting 40 years!!!!!

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Tight Lines!!

Actually that sounds fun.
I have another good idea. Put an intiative on the ballot to take cotrol of the WDFW away from the stae and put it in private hands. Everyone knows how well the goverment can screw things up, So the voters might think it is a good idea and vote out the WDFW. Hey it just might work???

If I weren't leaving in March, I'd be right behind you guys in actually attempting to do somethin like that! But I'm still gonna get the absentee ballots!! hehe

Tom

That is the problem with WDFW, its like a private company just trying to make a buck. When the people of the state look at it they see it as losing money but the big wigs inside are making lots and lots of money from the special interest groups i.e. the commercial fisherman. Besides if the state were to put into private hands they sure as hell wouldnt handle it over to someone who would know what they were doing. It would make too much sense.
If something needs to be passed it needs to be put back to the people. This was attempted with the Referendum that formed the Commision but we can obviously that has just made things worse. We need a total internal change. I think the best thing we can do is try to make it so that the Director is voted on by the people.
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Ryan

My thought exactly. If the people were to chose the Comissioner then maybe he would be more willing to please the people not the $$ that bought him off to start with.


As for being a private groop. I don't think that would fly. What is dif. than what we have now? their only intrest is to make a $ or more like a million$$. Wouldn't that be a monapoly? so it wouldn't be legal. but making some MAJOR internal changes is what is really needed.


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