Kept my opinion to myself on this one but time to enter the fray. I fill my freezer with salmon every year....what I don't freeze I can or pickle. Can't see the need given the huge availability of salmon nearly every year for anyone to desire to kill a wild steelhead? Only arguments I've seen so far for killing wild steel is ones based on principles of "Right's to kill before someone else does." How sad. There's always going to be hatchery steelies available (another argument for later) so why can't these satisfy the need to kill? Is it an issue of bragging rights? Buy a camera and a cloth tape measure. I'd be in hog heaven to see our upper watersheds saturated with wild spawners to the point where they actually have to compete for mates and spawning gravel.

Gooose