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Hi all, just a lurker here, enjoying the discussions and enjoying giving all my lures to the river.
Finally had a question:
I was wondering what licenses I really need to buy to fish legally here in Oregon. I had a fishing license and a salmon tag all year then when I was looking over the draft of the 2010 regs I noticed there's also a hatchery tag!
Do I need that hatchery tag, especially now when only fin-clipped chinook and steelhead are open? I friend of mine says that the hatchery tag is just to give the over the top fish catchers a legal way to get more than what a salmon tag alone allows. If we don't fill our salmon tags, the fin-clipped hatchery fish can go on the salmon tag too.
Being as I haven't caught a single dang salmon or steely, that really doesn't apply to me.
But its cheaper to be legal than it is to be fined, so I was just wondering what you experts knew.
BTW, price of every license/tag is going up in 2010. I'll still enjoy getting out there although it'd be nice to catch stuff once in a while.
Walter
Finally had a question:
I was wondering what licenses I really need to buy to fish legally here in Oregon. I had a fishing license and a salmon tag all year then when I was looking over the draft of the 2010 regs I noticed there's also a hatchery tag!
Do I need that hatchery tag, especially now when only fin-clipped chinook and steelhead are open? I friend of mine says that the hatchery tag is just to give the over the top fish catchers a legal way to get more than what a salmon tag alone allows. If we don't fill our salmon tags, the fin-clipped hatchery fish can go on the salmon tag too.
Being as I haven't caught a single dang salmon or steely, that really doesn't apply to me.
But its cheaper to be legal than it is to be fined, so I was just wondering what you experts knew.
BTW, price of every license/tag is going up in 2010. I'll still enjoy getting out there although it'd be nice to catch stuff once in a while.
Walter