Last weekend on the Hoh I watched two different boats get pulled over and issued hefty fines and get gear confinscated because they were using bait in the fly only and selective rules water. It was great! Not only to see that the enforcement is out there but also because we had told these knuckle heads that bait and barbs were not allowed in that paricular area. Instead of listening, they blew us off and tried to hide it the rest of the time. They fainted ignorance that they didnt know any better and that they would change up but they didnt. Both of these boats were out of state and the trailer vehicles had Oregon plates, one guy was even driving a hummer! It was nice to see that enforcement is present and protecting the Fish.
I agree with your view on the ambiguity of the fly only regulations. The responses to this posting were a little crazy to say the least. Some of the tangents that people went on didnt have anything to do with the topic at hand which was people were fishing illeagally and got caught. Hooray! Enforcement that we all want to see when poaching and other stupidity on the river is occurring.
as for driving the hummer, if it is an H2 it needs to be sunk into a lake in the middle of nowhere... the old army hummers are not as bad, yaknow, a piece of plywood as a "bench seat"......... oh well, great to see some enforcment doing what they should be :thumb
For all of the crap we (myself included) give Hummer drivers, they should be given some sort of medal.
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