Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
Frankly, I just don't get why anybody in the hatchery world wants to invest in harvest programs for winter steel.

In terms of food value, they rank right up there with brown CR tules or dark coastal chinook... basically a fat-free carcass full of eggs or sperm.

You want hatchery steelhead to harvest? Plant summer runs... a much higher snd better use of limited dollars for hatchery programs


Yea that! Better conditions to fish and better fighters too!


Edited by RUNnGUN (04/07/21 02:27 PM)
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