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WILD
BLOG: Don't know what you got …
January
14, 2008
Here's
a depressing little piece of nostalgia that turned up recently in
the sock drawer of "Wild Country" co-host Bill Herzog: the
1973 Washington Sportfishing Rules pamphlet.
Oh,
the pamphlet itself is an innocuous li'l glimpse of a simpler time
- 3 ½ x 8 ½, 33 pages, hand-drawn sketch of a rainbow trout on the
back cover - but once you start reading the rules & regulations
that goverened our rivers and streams 35 years ago, you'll feel
like you're an 85-year-old looking at your high school yearbook.
So
many friends … gone forever.
By
unofficial count, there are 44 rivers and streams in Washington
with nearly unrestricted access to wild steelhead in 1973 that are
now either CLOSED, or their RUNS ARE EXTINCT. F-O-R-T-Y F-O-U-R!
Sound
the bagpipes for steelhead in the Elwha, Cispus and Skokomish. Mourn
the disappearance of seasons on the Black, Duckabuch and Dungeness.
Remember wistfully the lost opportunities on the Nisqually, Suiattle
and Hamma Hamma. Here's a list of fisheries that were open to Evergreen
State anglers in 1973 which are currently dead or restricted:
| Big
Beef Creek |
Big
River |
Black
River |
Burley
Creek |
| Canyon
Creek |
Capital
Lake |
Cedar
River |
Cispus
River |
| Counter
Creek |
Curley
Creek |
Deschutes
River |
Dewatto
River |
| Dowewalips
River |
Duckabush
River |
Dunegness
River |
Elwha
River |
| Entiat
River |
Hamma
Hamma |
E.
Fork Humptulips R. |
Jim
Creek |
| Kennedy
Creek |
Lake
Union Ship Canal |
Little
Quilcene River |
Mill
Creek |
| Nisqually
River |
Nooksack
River |
Quilcene
River |
Salt
Creek |
| Tornow
Branch |
Sauk
River |
Sherwod
Creek |
Skagit
River |
| Skokomish
River |
Skookum
River |
Skykomish
River C&R |
Snow
Creek |
| S.
Prairie Creek |
Suiattle
River |
Tahuya
River |
Toutle
River |
| Vance
Creek |
Lake
Washington |
White
River |
Yakima
River |
Don't
know what you got 'til it's gooooooneee ….
-JS
WILD
BLOG: Eat your heart out
Dec
07 , 2007
That's
27 pounds of steelhead from the Babine River.
That's
Wild Country co-host Bill Herzog.
That's
a photo I didn't take, because I wasn't there.
That's
all I have to say about that.
--J.S.
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