Wildlife officials wrong to ticket tribal fisherman, high court rules

[PlateauNDN]

Igdogg, I didn't say or acknowledge any other rights and Idont agree either with some of the other Tribes down there fishing and such.  I had a really good talk with quite a few Council Members regarding the fishing and hunting issues at the River and Ceded Areas with other Tribes and I'm in agreement with them that we don't need to be apart of CRITFC because we have our own laws and regulations and a strong Treaty to back our Rights.

[biggdogg]

I'm down there from April to August chasing the fish from bonneville to icicle the tribe really needs to clean up that river too much drinking and drugging going on. What it really comes down to is being able to arrest family members. If the the tribe is not going to step up and clean up the river i would have no problem inter tribal game wardens taking control, or state game wardens what ever it takes to get the job done.

[h2ofowlr]

Which tribe(s) are the ones that fish the Wind River?  You will see them back there trucks down on the boat ramp and fill the 4x4 fish totes.  Last year it seemed they would wait until just after dark, when most of the fisherman had already pulled out.  I went down to talk to the guys that were loading the fish.  They were not to appreciative that I was there talking to them or watching what they were doing.  Same interesting stuff also happens right above Shepherd falls.  When the NA can walk across the high bridge in which I would get a $500 fine for crossing and throw treble hooks and snag the hell out of the salmon just beneath the fish ladder.  Don’t know which tribes are which down there.  As well as on the river.  All I know is there is nets strung across the CR above Bonneville dam every several hundred yards clear up past Drano and all you hear about is the need to remove dams because they are killing our salmon runs.  Maybe the hundred of nets commercial and NA play a big part in it.  Keep the damns!

[biggdogg]

Trust me those several hundred nets don't catch fish like u think they do I was a fish buyer last year i know first hand. It's just like fishing anywhere else everybody has their own honey hole, except with gill netting it's a registered site. I know for a fact too that a lot of snagging goes on at wind river(yakamas) seen a lot of fish all ripped to hell. How many fish do the lower river gill netters catch? I know they can fish with smaller nets and when they fish they catch everything coming up the river. Your just calling the kettle black