Dr Pepper,
My comment was not address to you…sorry! Your posting came after mine! It was addressed to Duck in The Fog.

It has been strongly suggested by numerous biologists (including Salmo G) in a process called Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment (EDT), during the Tacoma relicensing process, that the massive returns of "mini-jacks" were directly cased by, and from, the salmon hatchery holding and rearing spring chinook smolts way to long. These "mini-jacks" do nothing to improve or add to the Cowlitz Spring Chinook gene pool. That is why WDFW is trying to harvest all of them! So why not allow them to be harvested in the lower river? These jacks are not "wild stocks" and the hatchery only needs a hand full for gene pool purposes!

Cowlitzfisherman,

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????