teamrabies

I voted no. I have no problem with $20/day to fish, but fished these rivers before the regulations were brought in and they were always good. Do you think they would have as many anglers as they do/did if the fishing was poor? There were a few stretches (famous) that get/got drifted heavily, but it was always rare to bump into fishermen on the rivers you mentioned if you went off the beaten track to walk and wade. Catch and Release regs were all that was required. I would accept a premium on an annual license. I believe that to be fair, BC residents should pay more than $15 per year ($30). Other Canadians could pay $40. Non-Canadians $60. I think Missin the Bow is right though - as time goes by, people will buy into the revised history of why the regulations were introduced and believe that it is the CW regs that produced the good fishing. I think your post prooves that to be true. But I think Missin the Bow got it wrong when he said the reason they do not sell annual licenses for CW to non-residents is to keep track off rod days. Likley 30% of the rod days are from Residents of BC who can only buy an annual license - how would they know how many rod days they had? Also - the BC CW license is good for all of the Class II waters so you wouldn't even know which river they fished.