many times i have seen posts saying someone seen a net"streched clear across the river"
when it really was just a few cork lines to hold the net in place.i grew up in the northwest and have seen many different kinds of nets, not just from the shore, just a shame that people drive over a bridge, see a few corks(like the ones on the queets river) and say " oh the queets tribe is fishing, nets have been in for a few days"... wrong
or ive heard from guys who have pulled their boats out at the queets clearwater confluence
" there is a net stretched clear across to the log jam" wrong....
nets on the coast, have a cork every foot or so, because the rivers are so small and so low you dont want the net to touch the bottom causing it to snag and then lose your net, make sense??? yes it does,,
also you will never see a net choke off the mouth, fishing grounds cannot be directly across the river from one another, they are staggered, make sense again???
when you set out a net in a fishing ground, it has to stay there, so the fisherman load a burlap sack,(the kind coffe is shipped in 50lbs bulk)with river rock tie it closed and leave enough to attach a long tie line(depends on how deep)and set in place, a fisherman gets 50 fathms of net to set for one ground(on the quinault)you can have as many tie lines as you want to keep your net place.some people have 7 tie lines to a net, thats alot, to someone who knows nothing about netting it probly looks like a net!!!!
i hear crap about nets all the time and how easy money it is, fill all those sacks and lay out a fishing ground its hard work.
like potter said not everyone fishes for the money, they do it to get by.
note: you can also use a stake to set a net in place,hemlock pole driven into ground to hold net with tie lines.

Hey Sollekcs, great handle, always expected to see someone bungie jumping off that bridge. A little reality on this board regarding the commercial fisheries is long over due. Thank you, somebody posted that they figured the money a fisherman made went to the tribe! I don't think so,but what do I know,

Ok sollex you maybe right on how and why the nets are strung on the coast. I can only tell you and everyone that i have seen a net, not just the land ties streghted all the way across a small trib on the puyallup and it was out of the water enough to see from bank to bank.
Now i protested on the board when i first got on here about this. Yes i understand that there are rules you have to obey, just like everything else.
Yes i know it is hard work to maintain and run those nets and keep snags out and logs and branches, i've seen them stuck in to the knuckles in land tied nets on the Nisqually.
And yes, i still do believe that the fishiery should go to thee tribe, as it is the tribes hertiage that is what has been established as the reason for the infomas words:
NORAML AND ACUSTOMED WAYS AND NORMAL AND ACUSTOMED PLACES!

Thanks for verifing some of my thoughts

elmtree (woody)

elmtree, sorry to hear that.it is disheartening to see those things and makes you wonder what that person was thinking, but no matter what kind of activity we like to do there is always someone doing something that makes u sick, wether it be hunting, fishing,or on the road, there is always someone who just has to see what he can get away with and even make a few bucks while doing it, BUT that doesnt make us all that bad.

Fear not Sollex, i was not pointing fingers at anyone on the coast. As i said, i have never been out on the coast and seen any nets in the rivers or estuaries.

Just that yes, there are some meat heads out there that instead of trying to do what is right, or at least try to do as best as possible, just does what he/she wants and spoils alot of the world for the rest of us, i mean you, me, letty and the rest of humanity that really gives a [Bleeeeep!] about something. More so when it is something that is declining in front of our eyes.

elmtree (woody)