Eswan, Most of those fish at the dam are trucked to the hatchery at Lake Aberdeen and spawned there and some are released in the Vance Creek pond and Lake Sylvia which has been a disaster and a waste of time. The fish that return to Lake Aberdeen up Van Winkle Creek that are from Nooch stock are also spawned. Nooch water that is piped from the Nooch to the Aberdeen hatchery is used for the Nooch stock to home in on. You are correct when you say that WDFW doesn't give a rats ass about the tax paying rec anglers. If you send an email or try to call Region 6 (Losee) for answers or information about steelhead in the Harbor, good luck. Looks like emails are deleted and calls erased. When Larry Phillips worked at Region 6 he would return my calls and I was able to talk to him. Not any communication from the present regime.