Drifter,

I think you and I would agree on almost everything regarding steelhead and salmon management in our state. The merger has been a flop for steelhead and salmon. The new biologists are using TEN YEAR averages to reference success and failure! What about forty years ago? Fifty? I don't know if I'll ever get to fish the O.P. in the late winter again.

On the other hand, trout fishing in the local lakes in Thurston County is probably better than ever. But it's not the same as a drift trip on an Olympic Peninsula river. Nothing is. I've caught more than my fair share of steelhead, but is there ever enough?