The Outdoor Line Forum

This is not good .......Who keeps pushing for this?

I don't know, I would prefer a 26" min. Crazy, that is not even a nice trout.

Pretty sure it's the charters pushing this. They want customers to take home more fish.

Terrible idea. Should go up not down.

Plus it will accelerate the closing of seasons as those twirpy fish will be counted against our quotas.

It's 17 inches in BC and they seem to have plenty of big fish. Didn't it used to be 18 inches in Puget Sount way back when

I'm definitely not a fan of the size limit reduction to 20".
It sure seems that we are seeing smaller chinook and harvesting the little ones does not seem a step in the right direction.
Does Canada have large chinook? You bet but remember that the vast majority of our returning adult salmon encounter the BC coast before they reach our waters.

I think it will get people their fish faster, off the water and handle less fish. I think it's more damage to bring a fish on board and throw it back and continue to keep fishing (as seen on local TV shows), or hook a 21" fish that is pumping blood and have to release it.