Maybe CM and Salmo can comment on this. I am going to talk about winter steelhead on the Chehalis system. The state has closed winter steelhead fishing on this system this winter to protect the native steelhead. I live in the South Sound and used to fish the Puyallup and Nisqually for steelhead back in the day. I think the Puyallup has been close for wild steelhead retention about 40 years ago and the Nisqually since the early 90's. Now, both rivers are comletely closedfor steelhead. The wild steelhead runs have improved a little on some of the years on those rivers but never to the numbers to ever allow fishing again. Even CnR fishing. The wild runs will never come back. Getting back to the Chehalis and tribs, I am thinking that that system is following the same path as the Puy and Nis. No winter steelhead fishing again on that system as long as the state is concerned with recovery of wild steelhead. Thoughts?