We do not have much of the Dec & Jan returning Steelhead as they hit the dumpster with the early timed hatchery releases by old WDG intended to be primarily caught by the Nation. In the process they decimated the Late Native Coho to the point darn near not viable. To be honest even if the winter Steelhead numbers were better or much better the Chehalis should have been closed in Dec & Jan simply to protect the remnant populations of native Late Coho. That simple and that ugly all in one sentence. The jig is up.

In a conversation I was asked what about the winter Steelhead hatchery programs? Well rounded off using 2020 releases from the preseason forecast 276,000 are Wynoochee and Skookumchuck mitigation and 64,300 are WDFW production on the Satsop. The mitigation fish are required due to the dams and the Satsop production is a WDFW program at their discretion as to if it continues or is dropped.