youngsteelheader
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I began my addiction to steelhead fishing four years ago and have been pursuing chrome almost every weekend since then. It has brought me to live here on vancouver island, a place so abundant with streams and rivers it's a fishermans paradise, that is until you read the regs... almost every stream is closed to fishing in the winter, and when open it is usually only open in the most difficult sections to access or its made flyfishing only which is pretty impossible on bouldery or canyon water of the westcoast. but none of this applies if your a poacher, so why not poach? who is too say its wrong, the gorvernment closes streams when there is an increase in pressure and they dont have the funds to police the system against poachers. A river i fished one season on the westcoast is now closed because poachers kept on tearing down or shooting the boundary sign, so new anglers to the system would not know where it was closed.
Why should i never have the chance to fish the nahmint, a stream once world renowned for spring fishing on the fly but now only open to poachers. When there's not enough fisheries officers to enforce laws and closing streams is the gorvernments solution, why not say screw the law and hit it anyways. I used to think illegal fishing was unethical but maybe the poachers are the smart ones with more balls then the rest of us
Why should i never have the chance to fish the nahmint, a stream once world renowned for spring fishing on the fly but now only open to poachers. When there's not enough fisheries officers to enforce laws and closing streams is the gorvernments solution, why not say screw the law and hit it anyways. I used to think illegal fishing was unethical but maybe the poachers are the smart ones with more balls then the rest of us