The idea of discontinuing winter run plants in favor of planting more summer runs was discussed on here a while back. I talked to Larry Phillips (before he left WDFW) about planting just summers and he said they weren't ready to do that yet because ocean conditions might improve and the wild steelies would return in larger numbers before too many years. Good luck. I also suggested to him about starting a hatchery run of summer steelies on the Satsop and he didn't seem to be too interested in that. It sounded at the time (from Phillips ) that they were just going to keep planting winter steelhead in the rivers even though we can't harvest them. The last two years WDFW was planting excess winter steelies from Lake Aberdeen and Skookumchuck in some of the lakes in Grays Harbor to harvest them. That was a bust as they were not good biters and ended up dying in the lakes. So I am thinking that will be discontinued. But Phillips is now gone so who knows what will happen now.