I hear you Mike,.... "The other problem is that 90% of the anglers are not even aware of the problems we face with regard to all of our fisheries." IMHO, this is the biggest problem of all. Many fly anglers don't care much for anything other than Salmon/Trout/Steelhead, also.
In my musings about this I was thinking that somehow we have to get off the litigation railroad. It's even more expensive than lobbying and the outcome is always in doubt. The money diverted to lobbying would have to be adequate to cover costs but I'm not sure how much that would take and, of course, there would have to be enough in reserve to cover "just in case" scenarios.... Not sure that's possible.... NRDC seems to be well enough "heeled" by itself to make this happen. Of course, they don't always see things the way we, as fisherman, do.... I'm still working on it, tho....
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