Salmo G, I find this topic amazing!!

Why is it that we have listed so many steelhead stocks as "endangered species" and apparently NMFS and all the other "experts" don't even know or understand where our listed steelhead migrate to? If they don't know that how can they determine what is making a specie so endangered?

I got it, I got it, first we list them as endangered species, and then we try to find out why they aren't coming back home. Maybe if we really understood what and where they go, and understand their complete life cycle, we just might understand why they have failed to return in sufficient numbers to be self- sustaining.

Maybe steelhead will never be able to recover, especially if we don't even understand where they go when they leave our rivers. It almost unbelievable, that NMPS would list a species first and then try to figure out its life cycle later on.


Well, I guess it's not that really that unbelievable is it Salmo?

Cowlitzfisherman

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