MO is having a lot of trouble with TU too. Most chapters have recently folded. National doesn't seem to care. Heck, the state guys don't seem to care much either.

The "street" perspective is that TU doesn't give a hoot about the Ozark fisheries because they're tailwater/hatchery deals mostly. Then we read major articles in Trout Magazine about the Guadalupe and the GRTU chapter and that just really tends to alienate us. Seems like it's becoming (maybe always has been) a very elitist, good-ole-boy org that works for the rich guys, but not for most of us.

From what I've read, that seems to be pretty much what's going on in WA too. The fight seems to be over hatcheries and fishing vs. wild fish conservation. TU could learn some things from DU about how to make it work. If TU wants to go the way of the Sierra Club and become an environmentalist org, that's their business. But they can't expect a lot of support from fishermen if they do.

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