Funny you guys bring this up, since the Fall issue of Northwest Fly Fishing contains an article about the confusing manner in which WDFW writes their regulations... check it out.
-tight lines- Jim -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Mastro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what is legal and what is ethical? Now you've brought up a very interesting point. I've thought about this often as I've tried to figure out the regs. I gave up... I'm not taking ANY fish so I don't care what the regs say. I only want to know if the river is open or not. Other wise it's just too confusing. Tight lines my friends, Charlie > From: "Keith Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 15:56:21 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: what is legal and what is ethical? > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:56:29 -0700 > > I have often wondered why the regs are written the way they are. On the > N.F. Stilly it is Catch & Release except legal to retain hatchery > steelhead. I interpret this as it is legal to fish for anything as long as > you release it. I've heard you can be ticketed(has anyone ever recieved > such a ticket?) for targeting salmon. Since it is illegal to retain searun > cutthroat....is it illegal to fish for them? Is it unethical to target a > salmon but not a searun cutthroat? Have I missed something in the regs? > >
