Interesting that the ban would not include a weighted line since with the weighted flies I tie it rotates the hook up therefore does not line the fish in the back like a sinking line would with an unweighted fly with a down turned hook. If Kraemer the biologist really wanted to make an impact he would coordinate with law enforcement to actually patrol the areas in which the Chinook spawn not just his monday through Friday 9-5 shift but just before dark when the poachers come out of the woodwork. In reality the Chinook he speaks of spawns pretty much above the C-post area and to ban weighted flies on the entire north fork is a pathetic attempt to save the salmon. If people really want to save the endangered Chinook then perhaps a good place to start would be with the nets that are in the lower river right now. There are more Chinook indiscriminately taken by those nets than any or all of the weighted flies on the entire system. Curt Kraemer giv!
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Patrick
----- Original Message -----From: Preston SingletarySent: 8/16/2001 8:59:31 AMSubject: Weighted flies banned on N.Fk Stilly
The WDFW announced yesterday that weighted flies will be prohibited on theN. Fk of the Stillaguamish from Aug. 20 through Oct. 15. The action wastaken because anglers have been deliberately targeting wild spawning chinookwho are schooled up in a few deeper holes in the low, warm waters that haveprevailed this summer. Sad to relate, most of these fish have beenfoul-hooked and the purpose of the ban is to prevent any additional stressto them. This rule change has been put in place to protect the spawningchinook while still allowing the angler to fish for steelhead and sea-runcutthroat. If the harassment of chinook doesn't stop, it is still possiblethat the North Fork may be closed to all fishing.
--- PATRICK PETERSEN
