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Catch and Killing of Native Steelhead

Native Steelhead are a faint dream for most fisherman, but there are a few rivers where wild steelhead are allowed to be caught and killed. Wild steelhead are one of the great game fish that have ever swam in our rivers. . So why do the people who fish the rivers get a bad rap?

People think that wild steelhead should be preserved. There are rivers with a big enough wild fish populations that sport fisherman can catch and kill a native fish but people still believe that it is wrong. Wild fish are our heritage so we should be able to fish for them too right. Not according to some people, they believe that because the fish have diminished in other river the same will happen to all, but that is not totally true. There are many examples of one run of fish that has died off and another run still thriving. Like the Sol Duc that river has a huge run of native steelhead and is open almost year round. But the skokomish river steelhead are almost all extinct because of some bad choices the tribes have mad in the past. Because people use one river to set the standard for all they don�ft get the whole picture.

There are many reasons why people would rather fish for native steelhead. Wild steelhead fight harder then hatchery fish, because of that a wild steelhead are a more of a challenge then hatchery steelhead. Look at it this way would you like to spend countless hours trying to catch a hatchery steelhead, only to find out that once they are hooked it�fs a short and soft fight? I would rather go after some thing that you have to work for not some thing that is going to give up after five minutes.
Another reason why people go after native steelhead is they taste better. Most experienced fish people have eaten a wild fish before in their life and they can tell the difference between a fish who started its life in a hatchery and one that started its life in the wild. Another example, would you rather eat a wild rainbow trout or a store bought pen-raised rainbow trout? Now keep in mind they come from the same family but one has lived its life in the wild and the other in a pen. I would go for the wild one.

Wild steelhead are in the rivers so a fisherperson has a chance to catch one and take it home for dinner.