This is another "follow up" to the "should have been hatchery. What many "younger people and thousands of others never knew", there were "springers" in the Wynoochee, not a large run but "for those in the know", some ended up as dinners and smoked fish.

A Wynoochee hatchery, could have been a perfect scenario for raising "hatchery springers", but there was/is a WDFW element that believed those springers were "dip in" fish, yea right, dip in 30 miles up the Wynoochee River, above the canyon....year after year.

RW, said at a meeting some years back.....there will never be "hatchery springers" raised in the Chehalis basin......will be good when he is gone!!!!