Irresponsable walleye guide practices

[Bullkllr]

I don't necessarily have a problem with clients keeping fish. I do have a problem with guides allowing clients to keep limits for everyone in the boat though. If there's a guide and 2 clients, then there should be 2 limits. I also hope they know enough to release the big breeding females.

Throw in the fact that while maybe 1/2 or less of the non-guided anglers actually punch their one wild fish, but some guides/clients punch a limit day after day. And there are a ton of so-called guides- way more than 10-20 years ago when all the guides were locals well known to everybody.

[bearpaw]

Guides are good for local economies and provide good outdoor opportunity for less active fishers or hunters. Some states do have laws preventing hunting guides from hunting while they have clients, I'm not sure if there are any similar laws regarding fishing guides with clients.

[Knocker of rocks]

Walleye are an invasive species. Would be better for native fish if they were all gone.

 

[snowpack]

Guides are good for local economies and provide good outdoor opportunity for less active fishers or hunters. Some states do have laws preventing hunting guides from hunting while they have clients, I'm not sure if there are any similar laws regarding fishing guides with clients.

Some states have laws that a guide can't retain a personal limit while hired.  The boat can bring in a limit for the number of customers.  The guide can still fish though.

[Sneaky]

If there was a problem with low walleye population they would reduce the limit... people retaining fish that are legal to retain is not an issue 

[BigGoonTuna]

about the only thing worthwhile about walleye fishing is eating them.  they're light biters, they fight like a wet dishrag, and they're non native.  i can't see why anyone would want to fish for them for CNR.  i keep every legal one i catch(within the limit)

as for the coastal steelhead situation, that's a different ball of wax.  those are fish that keep declining in numbers every year, and most of the guides around forks aren't locals(most come from seattle and tacoma, and there's been oregon and montana guides showing up the last few years).  they're kind of like sea lions, the numbers need thinning to protect the fish.

[walleye1]

Yeah let's get rid of all walleye and bass there both non native. Then we can all catch test tube trout, salmon and steelhead.

[Dan-o]

Yeah let's get rid of all walleye and bass there both non native. Then we can all catch test tube trout, salmon and steelhead.

       Finally some common sense.       

[WSU]

I'm always hesitant to blame someone for NOT breaking the rules.

It's a pretty slippery slope when  sportsmen start bashing other sportsmen for doing what is legal - but not being done the way they like it.

These things just seem to divide sportsmen.

The difference is that continuing to bonk wild steelhead in a declining population isn't good for the resource.  Shouldn't sportsmen advocate for healthy populations and better management, even if WDFW says it's legal (we all can think of many examples of WDFW mismanaging our resources)? 

Or, should we treat them like the buffalo and sit quietly while others continue to kill them until they are gone, all in the name of not being divided?

[plugger]

I'm talking potholes and Moses lake, There are no native fish in either lake I'm aware of. Potholes didn't even excist   Walleye are there, they draw big crowds, there good for the local economy. So how is the seabass and rockfish fishing in the sound and eastern straights, Oh that's right, there is no fishery (Over harvested) Well you have your sturgeon, Oh that's right that's disappearing to. (Over harvested) Salmon, ditto. Halibut you get your week of that. Do you get the point yet. Why destroy a viable fishery. It amazes me that people don't get that when you over fish one species, people switch to the next till there gone then they find something else and so on. Well were running out of things to switch to and its up to us as sportsman to protect as best we can what is left weather its your target species or not. It will effect you in the long run, that I can guarantee

[Button Nubbs]

I feel the same way about guides on the OP that let their clients kill the last few remaining wild steelhead.