Based on what I read about from BC, steelhead are just too much a problem as they interfere with salmon. In the fall they complicate chum fishing and in the spring Chinook. Summers mess up everything. And since we know who runs the show here, I don't see any change.

Small museum runs with "acceptable" bycatch in net fisheries and leave them alone the rest of the time.

There are at least a few streams where an intensive hatchery program, even with Chambers Creek, could work.

I read that folks who like steelhead are lobbying the Leg for money to reopen and run Skamania. You saw from that decision where the value is placed.