Pink Nighty
Life of the Party
Heres something I havent seen much here, but I'm gonna do it.
Trigger Warning: fucking disgusting display of neglect, laziness and disregard for the foundation of life in this part of the world. When I saw it I was shaking mad and willing to say things I wouldnt want heard in public, so yah.
Spent saturday chasing coho and chums on the local river. On my last trip up I had scouted a fantastic new run but hadn't fished it, and was salivating over it for the two weeks I had to wait.
I walk down a trail of the railroad tracks that leads to a large rock outcropping forming a large eddy before flattening into a classic swinging run.
I get to the waters edge and it's clear that I'm in an empty fish camp. Couple partially strung tarps, some empty coke cans, a pole hung up to hang fish on.
Looking into the water I see 4 nets tied off to the bank, each of them tangled into the brush and logs in the water and all of them containing at least a couple coho corpses that are at least a week dead.
I go about trying to haul the nets out of the water and at least get them up on land. It's pretty clear I'm outgunned however, the amount of junk tangled up made hand removal impossible. I also realize that I dont know if I'm on solid legal ground to pull them out.
So I take some pictures, screenshot my location and text my local game warden.
I tell him what I've found and that I hope he knows how to deal with this, and he said he was on top of it.
I go back to fishing, upset about the nets but absolutely enthralled by the water they were in. As I'm crawling along the rocks that form the eddy, I'm hit with an overwhelming smack of salmon carcass funk. I follow it to the source, and find yet another net tied off to the rocks, this one hauled a couple feet out of the water and containing 30-40 coho, also all decomposing and abandoned.
So why am I posting this gross bit of awful? I'm hoping to find a more efficient place to send this information than the local warden, who while an awesome officer and guy is stretched very thin and not necessarily the person who can ultimately help with things like this.
Unless this was just a flat out poach job, which seems unlikely due to its brazeness, this was a legal tribal fishery. Is there a better place to have reported this? Am I in a legally defensible position to go bring the dudes and tools out 5here and clean it up?
Is there anything that those of us who give a fuck can do about this?
Trigger Warning: fucking disgusting display of neglect, laziness and disregard for the foundation of life in this part of the world. When I saw it I was shaking mad and willing to say things I wouldnt want heard in public, so yah.
Spent saturday chasing coho and chums on the local river. On my last trip up I had scouted a fantastic new run but hadn't fished it, and was salivating over it for the two weeks I had to wait.
I walk down a trail of the railroad tracks that leads to a large rock outcropping forming a large eddy before flattening into a classic swinging run.
I get to the waters edge and it's clear that I'm in an empty fish camp. Couple partially strung tarps, some empty coke cans, a pole hung up to hang fish on.
Looking into the water I see 4 nets tied off to the bank, each of them tangled into the brush and logs in the water and all of them containing at least a couple coho corpses that are at least a week dead.
I go about trying to haul the nets out of the water and at least get them up on land. It's pretty clear I'm outgunned however, the amount of junk tangled up made hand removal impossible. I also realize that I dont know if I'm on solid legal ground to pull them out.
So I take some pictures, screenshot my location and text my local game warden.
I tell him what I've found and that I hope he knows how to deal with this, and he said he was on top of it.
I go back to fishing, upset about the nets but absolutely enthralled by the water they were in. As I'm crawling along the rocks that form the eddy, I'm hit with an overwhelming smack of salmon carcass funk. I follow it to the source, and find yet another net tied off to the rocks, this one hauled a couple feet out of the water and containing 30-40 coho, also all decomposing and abandoned.
So why am I posting this gross bit of awful? I'm hoping to find a more efficient place to send this information than the local warden, who while an awesome officer and guy is stretched very thin and not necessarily the person who can ultimately help with things like this.
Unless this was just a flat out poach job, which seems unlikely due to its brazeness, this was a legal tribal fishery. Is there a better place to have reported this? Am I in a legally defensible position to go bring the dudes and tools out 5here and clean it up?
Is there anything that those of us who give a fuck can do about this?