canadensis

Great shop! From what I have read of your adventures you seem to find "situations" worthy of complaint wherever you go!

All great points Harps. I like your fact based approach to the impacts of this region. Sad thing is they will never give an area like this wildland Park designation because of the industrial use, this would give the area the protection it needs. Speaking of logging, they log the piss out of this area as well. I still say that a fishing moratorium is way overkill. The area is C&R for the most part and the vast majority of the anglers are responsible and follow the rules. Angling is on the bottom of the list of what is negatively impacting the area.

The whole tail-water thing makes sense, thanks for clearing that up. I have fished the area for the past 25 years and no doubt it is busier and something has to be done to control atvs and camping, but only 10% of the fish left is far fetched. Do you have any data to back this statement up? I have caught bigger fish in the past couple of years than ever. No real difference in numbers just bigger fish. The ammount of users is annoying, but we are all to blame for this. How about all of the logging, O&G development, this is the big problem. Sure is easier to shut out the recreational users than it is to deaal with the crux of the problem. Very confused when you say I argue for my right to fish yet in your sig line you advertise you guide in these very waters??

Lots of vaild points here, but some that make no sense. Why ban fishing for 5 years? The bow as an example, or any of the rivers in Montana get fished 100x more than these streams. No problems with the health of these rivers, at least not from fishing. Sure I can see restricting ohv's from ripping through the streams, but calling for a fishing ban is unsubstantiated.

nice pink salmon

Super pictures. looks like some nasty scrambling to get in there.