FISHING -- As detailed in my column last week, the Washington Fish and Wildlife commission is scheduled on Friday to consider a petition that would raise the daily catch limit for hatchery marked rainbow trout to 10.

The catch would be that wild redband trout with intact adipose fins would have to be release, with an exception -- one wild fish over 18 inches long could be kept.

The idea is to let anglers catch more of the 750,000 net pen rainbows released into the reservoir each year while reducing the number of native redbands killed by angling each year. 

The redbands are unique, found nowhere else, with genetics worth preserving, say fish managers from the tribes and state.