According to ODFW Feb. 11th. action notice the nets will more than likely go in on Tuesdays during the season. My question is, why do they have to go in the day before our four days. Why cant they go in on Sunday and give the river a few days to recover before we get our days. I'll call ODFW and see what logic they have for this.
Can someone clarify what is test netting and who pays for it? I always hear this term and would like to know more about it. Last time I filled my boat/truck up with gas and headed down river the WDFW/ODFW didnt do any test fishing for me to see if it is worth my time...
Above the Hayden Island powerlines. The commercial fishery has <260 Willamette spring Chinook (<1% of the allowable harvest) to fish off of while the recreational fishery has 3,400 (99%+). The commercial fishery can't operate below the mouth of the Willamette with so few Willamette stock springers allocated to it.
After fishing the Columbia for many years I have noticed that for about 3 days the bite goes off after the nets have been in
This is not by sitting in one hogline and just observing a small part of the river, but talking to fish counters at several places
So what we get is nets in on tuesday poor bite for 2-3 days one day with a bazillion fisherman then two days for the river to fill with fish and it starts all over with the netters getting lots of fish
And somehow sportfisherman will get the majority of fish thru the smoke and mirror counting process
I don't second this! Fishing is slower after the nets go in. I fished every day of the season last year except 3 days and it was obvious the catch rate was worse after the nets.
The gillnetting should not be allowed on the Columbia and it's tributaries, PERIOD.
Wild/native fish should be released, PERIOD. (at least until runs can be re-established and numbers are back to sustainable amounts).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't hatchery fish put there for the specific purpose of sportfishing? Now, saying that, I agree that we need to come up with a solution to get more fish upriver, but blaming the lower river fisherman is definately not the solution.
We continue to close hatcheries, and yet these are the sources of the fish we are discussing, can anyone tell me why or how we can solve this without hatcheries? We spend millions fighting to protect our fisheries when, as registered voters, we should have a say in itanyway. Then those millions can be spent to improve the fisheries.
Its sure nice of the states to make certain the netters do get their time then if theres a fish or 2 left over we might get an open day carefully scheduled for when most of us are at work. And no I'm not cynical I'm not I'm not I'm not.:twocents:
I wouldn't want to imagine the fall out if there were no department staff onboard collecting the data (recent events taken into consideration and all). An entire historical baseline could hang in the balance.
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