Well Top, I think it's all about change. People always freak out when something different takes place. This area is all about trout and salmon, so anything that might affect that is bad medicine. IMO the salmon will never return to historic levels until all the dams and nets are removed from our waters, and all comercial fishing is stopped everywhere. Then all the salmon spawning habitat has to be put back to where it was 100 years ago. Is that going to happen? Not anytime soon. I grew up in Indiana on Lake Michigan. We had great fishing for not only salmon and steelhead, but pike, walleye, musky, bass pearch, catfish........you name it. We could and they still can keep 5 steelhead, 5 silvers, 5 trout, 2 kings or any combo of 5. They have the best hatchery system in the world. They got all their origional hatchery stock right here in Washington. I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me but, I'm all for catching fish, hatchery or not. I say we start full scale hatchery production and lets improve our catching, and accept the pike as a genuine game fish. No eradication needed.
