California Fly Fisher....

[Darian]

Short version, to me the point was that fishing for Steelhead has gone to h__l in a hand basket and that recreational fishers/fishing doesn't really contribute to the catastrophic decline in numbers. Chatham lays the major part of the blame on destruction/lack of habitat. There's much more in it than that and I enjoyed the article. Chatham has expressed this view in much of his writings but he sounds a bit more strident these days. I'm a big fan of Chatham and have all of the books he wrote.

Walter, the intended humor was nothing more than that, as you observed, you and Chatham share similar, maybe not all points of view (I guess I do too). Sorry I can't offer much more.

Hope your need for humor isn't due to any major, negative life event....

[Walter]

Thanks for the summary Darian. I've been on the ocean for weeks, its hard to get time to find the magazine when I get a day off. I'll try and call Russ and talk to him about it. I'm glad he wrote it. Hopefully the RRWSS pays attention. That's the Russian River Wild Steelhead Society. They need to stop helping Army Corps and DFW promote their current hatchery reality and press those agencies to better facilitate the recovery of Wild Fish. That requires a bypass around Lake Mendocino to restore access to prime spawning habitat, and restoring the tributaries in the Lower River. In my opinion, dumping some woody debris in the river or just on shore(like last time) only does so much in whats become a channelized drainage ditch of a middle and lower river....not that-that is all they do, but....