Best first post I have seen in my short stay on the fourum!Usual first posts are what river or where are the fish? welcome

I never did understand why fishermen and bioligist figured that wild broodstock were a good thing.The only advantage I saw was the native gene in the broodstock fish instead of an out of town gene in the traditional hatch fish.beyond that it seemed to me that you were taking away from the wild fish that which makes it superior.

There are a couple of rivers here in my neck of the woods that had hatch programs pre 70,s[Washington].The fish from those projects still return like mentioned,before the bulk of the natives.They also still for the most part return to the old hatch site.These fish do not look like the wild fish in these rivers night and day difference.These fish also return with the bulk of the silvers on these rivers,and have to share the spawning reaches with the silvers.These rivers realy only have a few locations to spawn in.Is it posible for steelhead and salmon to comingle during there spawning process?