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I didn't fish those rivers, but this could have been written by me. This is my experience almost exactly. I never needed a fish every time out, but I needed the "chance" at a fish. I have a hard time with it now and I can way more afford to do it than I did then. While the tribes have an interest, they don't always work in the interest of the entire fishery. I've seen way too many nets closing off all runs and discarded carcasses on the banks harvested for eggs to be unjaded. Addressing habitat and ocean escapement needs to be done, but we can't have indiscriminate fishing in the rivers either. The sportsman cannot carry the burden of saving the runs alone.
Mike I'd like to reply to your post but I'm about three sheets into the wind after my fishing trip today and the whiskey that I have consumed that will hamper my cognitive thinking and rant. LOL Tomorrow's another day.
I wonder if they have plans to ban everyone who runs their gear halfway across the river in a kayak then goes back to shore. These people usually have more than one lure on the line since they could never cast it from shore to where they drop it it in. On top of that, they use so much weight to hold their gear in place, when a fish does bite and get hooked it is dragging a couple pounds of lead around plus fighting the fisherman on the shore. How many native fish do think survive this even if they are released? Decades ago they banned using drones to take your bait out In WA and OR. I don't see how this kayak or full size boat type of fishing differs from the drone type .
That's when you run a steel cable on some rebar over their lines and really make some friends.I'm betting you used to fish off of Caterpillar Island to below Frenchman's Bar for springers? DANG, I had few enjoyable springs there. Anchoring up at the top of the island/below the Bar when the Big C was kinda' dirty. In fairly close 14'-19' with a wrapped K-14/15. Then the plunkers got to boating to the island and running their lines way out, basically stopping the trollers and the anchor fishermen.
I wonder if they have plans to ban everyone who runs their gear halfway across the river in a kayak then goes back to shore. These people usually have more than one lure on the line since they could never cast it from shore to where they drop it it in. On top of that, they use so much weight to hold their gear in place, when a fish does bite and get hooked it is dragging a couple pounds of lead around plus fighting the fisherman on the shore. How many native fish do think survive this even if they are released? Decades ago they banned using drones to take your bait out In WA and OR. I don't see how this kayak or full size boat type of fishing differs from the drone type .
Tribal fishermen do not manage the resource. They take the allotment that they were granted after we destroyed their way of life and penned them up on crappy soil.
Not trying to start a beef, but offering a little perspective. FWIW
Surely spoken by a transplant....Tribal fishermen do not manage the resource. They take the allotment that they were granted after we destroyed their way of life and penned them up on crappy soil.
Not trying to start a beef, but offering a little perspective. FWIW
LMAO!!!I have a disabled sticker for my car, will that work?
You would do well to put me on ignore, as I am about to do to you. I have been here for several years and no one has accused me of being either a transplant OR stupid in all that time. Have a nice day, or not. I don't care.Surely spoken by a transplant....
I now own a small ranch surrounded by, what you call, "Crappy soil".... What a stupid thing to say.
I am surrounded by some of the most beautiful (Tribal) land that is chock full of cougars, bear, deer, and also Columbia River frontage. Every time I go get my mail at the PO on the "Rez", I am so saddened by the yard after yard of junk, garbage, and (to me) unlivable homes. They have no utility bills, no taxes on their property, get quite big Casino payouts, yet live like that?
And before you draw your guns, my son is 1/4 Klamath. BUT... His grandpa (full blood) had a saying "If it's good enough for the White man, it's good enough for us". He never hunted on the Rez, and he refused to sign his kids up for the goodies associated with Tribal Enrollment. My son went to College on our dime, while ALL of his Indian school buddies quit when they started getting their big casino checks every month.
What the USA did to them in the old days was as bad as it gets, until they decided to make them feel like they couldn't survive or prosper without the Govt giving them everything.
Now if you want to talk about getting screwed on land, that would be East of the Mississippi. Those Reservations are pathetic and worthless. In the PNW? Even the Umatilla Tribes got some of the choicest land in their Reservations....