Challenged, you state:

"...the program is flawed from using the smaller returning adults in the creek."

What gives you the idea that only the fish returning to the creek are used for spawning? What evidence do YOU have that Snider fish are smaller?

Personally, and as a boat rule ... all Snider stock are released. If released, they will spawn in the Creek (and actually some other creeks in that vicinity) and spawning counts within that portion of the Sol Duc near that area has increased substantially.