Yeah, I was making an eyeball estimate from about 20 yards away while standing on my property, but the smolts I saw were nowhere near 8". I do remember being on the north fork of the Lewis in the late 80's when it was getting planted at the Island launch with 8" (maybe larger) smolts. Coincidentally, the fishing on the NFL back in those days was lights out for really nice spring steelhead up to 22# that I personally saw.