To put it to ya truthfully guys like me who release all my wild steelhead are a minority out here on the OP. 90% of the people that live here kill most of them. 70% of the people that visit kill most of them. People that come to Forks just want to kill things thats just how it is.

Is it right "Hell No", is it legal "unfortunately yes". And while its legal unfortunately people are gonna kill lots of fish.

I really dont know why people do it. If you ask me winter steelhead dosent taste that great and it smokes too dry. When you cook it it stinks. I think people kill them just to do it, to bring home a little trophy from the great Hoh, Bogachiel, SolDuc, Calawah or the Queets. They say look at what I caught this here native steelhead from the Hoh. Then when they get back to seattle they realize that it been laying in the back of the Pickup too long and they throw it in the dumpster.

Most people see it as a resource they have the right to take from. I see it as a resource that I borrow a smalll piece of Joy and Beauty from and then put it back because thats the most important part of the beauty.

People say the OP runs are huge and we can never exaust them.

Thats what they said about the Skagit, Sauk, Sky. And yet now agian they see no reason to make it total CnR when they already had to shut the Queets down early.