Cowlitz,

I have to have custom shorts made for me by a horse Tack dealer.

Regarding the spawning of hatch fish, are you trolling? We've been there, done that. In a nutshell, hatchery fish compete with nates for spawning gravel and dramatically lower a wild fish's offsprings' chances for survival /reproduction when they interbreed. Last, by taking wild fish out of the rivers to be used in wild broodstock programs, you reduce the spawning success of the next wild generation because you've removed wild spawners from the river, which produce many more returning adults/egg than in a hatchery. Clear now, isn't it!?!?!