Fishing is like a drug. A wonderful drug. An addiction that can only be cured by the waters itself. With that being said. I havent been down to any rivers since last year. so dusted off my fishing pole and off to the puyallup I went. Got to the river around 6 am. with aprx. 10-15 fisherman as far as the eyes can see. well until you get to the bends. everyone was spread out, so no combat fishing going on. it was slow from 6-8am. then the fish became active. you'll see a roll or a boil every 10-15 minutes or so. So i said what the hell. I'll stay a little longer. then comes 9am. What do I hear off in the distance. A motor boat. Lets just say the hole I like to fish in is a really good hole. theres a large pool, then it comes off to a natural choke point. Well I guess the indians discovered this to. They took a bunch of fish from there last year during the pink run. Well today. they dropped there nets, they pulled the nets and came right over to where I was standing. beached the boat and started taking out the salmon from the nets. 1 silver. and 8 kings. 7 hatchery. 1 native. The captain of his little vessel then asks the fisherman around, "so hows the fishing?" well under my breath, I said you just took them all. Then they offerred to sell the fisherman on shore at 4 bucks a pound. And you know what. that is i-l-l-e-g-a-l.
they unloaded there catch and went back to drop the nets again. this time nothing. "YES!!!!" they came back to shore to redo there nets for another drop and that was my que to get out of there.
They were also joking around about "O how we have 12 hours to fish a day, and were going to be out all week long."
Disgusting

chrome_chasin

8/27/2012 9:06:00 AM

one more thing that is new this year..... they get to net all the way up to the White river. Took my boys down yesterday to start teaching them river fishing only to find that they had strung nets across the major travel lanes. WTF!!! Here I was thinking that they had to stay down lower on the river?!?!?! I was down there Saturday when they brought there boats up the river. Took a couple of them several minutes to get past us at the soccer fields, at about 2 miles an hour, Im thinking that they just wanted to mess with us bankies, but they wouldnt do that that on purpose would they???

Ryan1992

8/27/2012 12:06:00 PM

You guys seem surprised about the indians every year they get more rights and then our rule book gets tighter every year I think they shouldn't get to net the way they do. Every year we get told the salmon runs gonna slow down no its not cause of the fisherman theres not enough fisherman out there to wipe the salmon out its the Indians with the hundreds of salmon they net but the fisherman have to make up for it and last year they had nets at the stuck river I don't think they are allowed to go that high but they do.

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