It's funny that the catch & kill advocates can make statements, but never have any data to back it up. I think danceswithfish presented a viable point to the lame excuse that certain rivers are ("deemed") healthy to allow wild steelhead kill. I remember seasons on the Dungeness, Humptulips, Hood Canal streams and others lasting well into March & April. They all had wild steelhead "deemed" healthy enough to support harvest, where are they now? Closed at the end of February, to protect dismal returns of wild steelhead.

Let's be proactive for once and preserve the "healthy" streams we have now and work to bring back the streams we messed up on.