My wife and I have never seen steelhead raised in the pens , we've been fishing this lake for 18 years, have spoken with Skip (don't know last name) who runs the net pen hatchery and some of the tribal workers from time to time. Maybe they tried it before then, I know most of the hatchery steelhead are raised on the river hatchery. They are def. raising sockeye in the pens as their major effort, the sockeye are their most important salmon from a cultural point of view. We sometimes snag and also have them attack spoons not much smaller then they are. The amount of predation by these fish is the reason for larger limits then the state allows, and much lower numbers of fisherfolk keeps numbers high. Hell, we've pulled 10 inch trout out of larger Dollies! while trolling near bait balls, there are large schools of 5 inch sockeye that we spot on sonar. We never see king smolts though. They are not having much success with sockeye from numbers returning. They have shifted releases by towing pens to the outflow of the lake to avoid predation by the Dolly Vardens and cutts which thrive there. We see lots of cutthroat and esp. sockeye in the stomachs of the Dollies and Cutts we catch there. We are not allowed to keep salmon or steelhead (any rainbows over 16 inches) and do not catch any numbers of either rainbow trout or steelhead, I think we've released one steelhead and caught less then 3 or 4 rainbows in all that time. We've caught and released some nice salmon over the years, but only one or two every three years or so. We tend to troll spoons that match the fish we find in the stomachs of what we catch.