Fish Washington

More than a review , the site has been very handy with some of the fisheries especially with my local one area seven closing down. It’s handy to be able to know where you can still go and what opens however, I hope they will step up and make things a little more user-friendly, such as prawns and halibut days. If Washington fish and wildlife wants more user support, they really need to make an effort to show the negative impact that the native salmon commission has they are hurting us all. Commercial tribes, and sports mission alike. Also, at some point in time we have to address the elephant in the room and get rid of some of these invasive seals. The natives no longer hunt them and the local orcas no longer eat them since in the late 1800s there primarily food source the seals were nearly wiped out. So they had to turn to salmon. To survive long enough that they did not educate their offspring that seals were a food source so wants to seal population came back, and the natives were no longer allowed to have them. They’re only other natural predator of the orca have lost their instinct. No we are stuck with an over population with an alpha predator that we are unable to control. The tribes are unable to harvest, and New York is no longer realize that they’re a food source. Washington fish and wildlife will use the lack of food for the orcas as an excuse to keep the rest of us on the water meanwhile, there are solutions to make things better. Come on guys. It’s not that difficult to manage this resource. This is coming from a avid sports fisherman, lifelong commercial fisherman as well as an Alaskan native. So I’m not coming at this as any bias from anyone of the three greatly affected.

1st a question: does this app provide up to date salmon steelhead fishing regulations for rivers (Columbia river, Snake river, etc.)? If I was able to get past the “Updating regs. This may take a minute..”, I would be able to answer this question myself.. However, the app downloads the regs fine, then stalls updating for 10+ minutes before I get frustrated and shut the app down. I’ve tried updating the app, re-installing the app, and waiting for much longer than the ‘minute’ of updating.. to no avail. This is a great move forward with Washington fishing regs, especially for salmon/steelhead fisherman who have to dig through the abyss of emergency regs to find out if/when/where we can fish for these beasts.. I don’t understand why it has to be so difficult to determine if I can or cannot fish on a specific river. Idaho makes it infinitely easier to read regulations, maybe Washington can take a page from their book, or maybe the whole book...

I was excited to get this app, but every time I open it, it gives me a message that says it failed to sync and the last time it synced was April 18, 2018. I have tried to get it to sync, but it won’t. Even with the last bug fixes, I am still having issues. How do I fix so I can use the app? Updated review and changed from 3 stars to 4 stars. I deleted the app and re-installed it per Jake’s instructions. Took a few try’s to get the information updated from the Dept. site but it finally did update and it’s working fine so far. I just hope that I don’t have to uninstall/reinstall every time there is an update available. You might work on that for the next updates. Thanks.