It seems that almost everyone who fishes in this vicinity claims to have caught a 20-plus pounder at some point in their steelheading career. Granted, the Dworshak hatchery produces sizable fish, but ... My personal hatchery best is a 19.35 male taken out of the lower Clearwater last January. Yeah, that's fairly close to 20, but in comparing it to my overall PR (a peninsula native we estimated at 23 pounds before sending him on his merry way) there was a whole lot of difference. That really reinforced my belief that most of these guys were suffering from either an accute case of exaggeration or brown-bottle flu at the time of their landmark catch.