State sets Chinook and Sturgeon Seasons

[cohoho]

Good and bad news depending upon how you look at it.  No OS fishing above marker #82 near Skamania Island.  The guides probably will be a bit peeved, but if it really helps out the population, I am for 100%. It just will be crowded in my recently found holes of last year....  Retention for 7 days a week in the lower river, but that will probably cause the harvest guidelines to be met earlier also...

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2010/february/021810b.asp

[robodad]

Well I hope to get a keeper before they shut it down for good but if the changes actually help the fish and are enforced then I suppose it's good, Just means feewer days to get after em !!!

[wildmanoutdoors]

Boy is it going to be a zoo this year. 600 or so extra boats that cant fish Bonni now all from I5 to 205. There goes my favorite spots...

Its not to help the fish as much as youd think. Its going to open more upriver quota for the folks of the east. And of coarse the natives. Up river guys have been screamin for years for a better managment so quota isnt hit before the fish even get over Bonni. Sure hope it changes and stays really good. I like my Camas spot and Beacon. 

[fishcrazy]

Boy is it going to be a zoo this year. 600 or so extra boats that cant fish Bonni now all from I5 to 205. There goes my favorite spots...

I just can't grasp the idea of not allowing shad fishing from a boat below Bonneville. They have lost their fricken minds!!!

I'm sure glad we get to pay an extra for a Columbia enhancement fee to better out fishery. LOL

Kris

[singleshot12]

More rules and regulations for the sportfisher,first C&R and then eventually more closures, meanwhile the netters and the poachers continue to take the majority of the fish.
Soon and inevitably all the sturgeon and salmon will be listed as endangered for the fisherperson.
 The way things are managed it's almost as if they want this to happen.

[fishcrazy]

More rules and regulations for the sportfisher,first C&R and then eventually more closures, meanwhile the netters and the poachers continue to take the majority of the fish.
Soon and inevitably all the sturgeon and salmon will be listed as endangered for the fisherperson.
 The way things are managed it's almost as if they want this to happen.

I agree!!!

Kris

[cohoho]

I can see that way for sure.  My first reaction was of OK, it is to provide a better fishery in the future, but after reading and hearing lot of other stuff, got to agree the only people that benefit are the netters, natives and poachers.......  (of course not to be confused with one group)

[singleshot12]

Oh and as far as being reduced to a C&R fishery only,never could really understand that,if the runs are doing that bad then they should just be left alone and all the enforcement can be spent on sturgeon poaching and tribal netting.

 :twocents:The Creator intended for fish to feed man not to just feed the rich man's ego the way a C&R fishery seems to just do .