I'm taking a guided river trip down the Quinalt this weekend and was wondering how the fishing/river condition has been? Anyone! Thanks, tight lines.

3-4 feet of vis, green color, 3-5 fish hooked per boat per day average

A friend of mine fish with a guide yeaterday got three and lost six by noon. Have fun

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Why support the enemy?

Sceamingreelron, bad judgement on your behalf
If we keep refering to the natives as our enemy then we will never get anything accomplished. But if we have patience and work TOGETHER we will accomplish a lot more.
Name calling and fighting has been tried and shown not to work. Old argument, time to go forward not backwards. Jim Marquis

Not cool scream You probably just made a few more for yourself

[This message has been edited by Coho (edited 02-08-2000).]

Not a way to make friends on this BB..

Amen--Jims right, you gotta remember, they used to be able to go and fish anywhere they wanted to. The Quinalt is on a "RESERVATION"!!

Todd

Scream, the guides on the Quinault are NOT the enemy!! --- I have fished with guides on the Quinault and found them to be friendly and helpful. Enjoy the fishing wherever and whenever you can, leave the negative talk with the lawyers.

THE QUINAULTS really have their stuff together they've created a fishery unmatched by any others I've seen ,if so and so wants to give his money to a guide to catch monster fish YOU GO BOY it's his nickel.I can only afford 1 guided trip a year and my dates coming up YEEHA!!FISH ON!!!!

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Tight Lines
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I would much rather support the Indians on the sport fishing side of things than the gillnet side. If we can convince all the tribes that they can make a much better living guiding instead of netting, there will be a hell of a lot more fish around for everyone.

A friend and I fished the Quinalt last March with Tandy Charlie. It was a great trip and he is a great guide. We took 3 18# hens and a couple of smaller bucks.
He is not "the enemy"

If only the state could get the returns they get!!!!!!!

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Tight Lines!!

Its not the Tribes its the use of gill nets in the rivers that are the ENEMY I believe if you asked some of the native guides they will agree with you.
Although the Quinault do have one of the best fisheries programs in the state could you imagine how much more money could be made if they curtailed the nets and opened up the sports fisherie?
How much would you pay for a guarenteed limit of three fish and a good chance of one of them being a twenty pounder?
Lets see at $150.00 for a trip thats $50.00 a fish what do they get for the fish they net $5 to $10.00 each?

I am not about making friend, nor being politically correct. I am about expressing the more than obvious facts! Indians put nets in rivers. They also shoolt elk on wildlife refuges! The Quinalt's are to be commended...they have figured it out. Sportsman pay a lot better than the fish buyers. This is one sportsman that just cant overlook all the other abuses and open my wallet to them........and Iam not alone.

Others on this board have stated it's not the Indians they have a problem with it's the nets.

Scream-
Who clearcuts forests?/Paves the forests with roads?/Puts up damns?/Nets the salt and the rivers?/Who have I seen poaching silvers in closed waters on the Skagit?/Who shot a trophy elk in the upper Quinalt rain forest-National Park- last fall?/Hmmmmm lets see who could possibly be doing all this infertile damage? Have the indians done all this???no Hmmmmmmm-Hint "White Men Can't Jump" but fish do.

I am sure you can see we are all brothers when it comes to turning it all around.

A lot of valid points Coho ... and do remember that there have been heated discussions about those problems also ... but do remember one thing: even as messed up as the state of WA is, our legislators had enough sense 70 YEARS AGO to ban intentional commercial netting of steelhead in the state's rivers.