Opportunities dry up when fisheries close for what reasons? No fish? Conservation? Can't enforce participation?... lame excuse. Lawsuits from groups to protect what? A fish you can't see or experience unless you hook one? I don't get it. IMO Steelhead should be open year round everywhere, C&R. If anything, cooperative research like the Russian Kamchatka and Kola Peninsula research that has gone on for years on wild steelhead could be integrated into opportunity here for the same thing. ESA laws need to be changed to accommodate research, and at the same time offer opportunity.