Preston and Matt, Thanks for your response. I'll exercise patience and wait for the Feds to reopen the Wenatchee and tributaries. If and when that happens, I hope there will be stringent regulations put in place for all species, ( i.e. single barbless hooks, catch and release, maybe even a fly fishing only section etc.) Look at what those regulations have done for the mid and upper Yakima.
Bob Martin > Bob, > I don't think I can give any kind of cogent answer to your question, the > logic of NOAA Fisheries (NMFS) decisions are sometimes pretty opaque. Since > the trout and the steelhead fisheries on the Methow have apparently had no > detrimental effect, I would hope that the Wenatchee and/or some of its > tributaries can be re-opened at some time in the near future and I > understand that WDFW has been talking with NOAA about it for some time now. > I used to enjoy fishing the Wenatchee, the late summer and fall was a > great time to be there and the fishing was, at times, outstanding. In the > last few years we fished it, we caught fair numbers of fifteen- to > seventeen-inch, fin-clipped rainbows which, since there were no fin-clipped > hatchery trout being stocked, were apparently residualized hatchery > steelhead. Bob Arnold (can't remember which of his books it was in) writes > about catching residualized chinook salmon there as well. > >
