Originally Posted By: Lifter99
Well, here we go again. I see that 150 adult steelhead from the Skookumchuck hatchery were dumped into Fort Borst Pond in the Centralia-Chehalis area. Another WDFW waste of time and a dog and pony show. Won't be long until some of the Grays Harbor lakes get their adult steelhead plants from the Nooch. Another pretty much waste of time.


There is no reason for us to expect to fish Grays Harbor tribs for winter steelhead again. That being the case, we should quit producing hatchery winter steelhead in that region immediately. It's a colossal waste of public money if nobody is going to be allowed to fish for them. If we need to keep the hatcheries going, as others have suggested, we should shift production to summer fish or even more salmon. I doubt the QIN would complain; they wouldn't need to pick those pesky hatchery winter runs out of their late coho nets anymore....