The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Charlie, I'm not in favor of them anywhere. Would I like them on the Upper Sac? Hell no. What I'm saying is that if our only argument is the Garcia Report, it's not going to be enough. Relicensing is never about what is 100% best for the fishery, it's about "beneficial uses" and the wide view of what that means. If it were only about biology, we'd have a lot easier go of it. We would tear down most of these dams if it were all about the fishery. Of course, there are dams that actually creat fisheries where there wouldn't be fisheries... those tailwaters are pretty good fishing.

We want it to be black or white. How can it be when even this little bit of science is kind of hard to pull anything monochromatic from? It's just more complicated than we'd like it to be and more compromise is required than anyone would like.

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