Bob,

I have a few of questions - whom do you know that catches 30 steelhead a year and keeps them? How many wild fish are incidentally caught while getting to that number? Of those wild fish, how many are harmed because of handling, etc.? Are they going to open the limit up on hatchery rivers only, or increase the number of hatchery fish to allow for the increased take?

Personally I have never caught a steelhead....something I should maybe talk to you about? Maybe setting up a trip or something... I am just concerned that maybe we don't have all the facts. I can only assume - and I hate what that makes me into sometimes - that the WDFW has taken into account the possible negative side effects?