John-
Thank you very much for your thoughts on this sad subject and thank you for providing us with the info,

If possible, could you email the attachment to me at ryanpetzold@email.msn.com ? Thanks!!

Secondly, my thoughts follow along the same line as Bob's.

I can understand 'letting these fish be' because it makes sense...natural selection at its finest! BUT...like Bob said, these fish are not facing the same hurdles they did when these droughts took place several generations ago.

They are facing overharvest from both the Natives and sporties (The Calawah gets hammered on a daily basis by a couple 'kill everything' guides during the winter). ...and all the other problems our present day wild salmonids are facing that we are so familar with.

It seems that drastic times call for drastic measures...the very least that can be done is impart on a no-kill fishery on the Calawah in the upcoming winter/springs to protect its wild steelhead...especially the winters of 2005, 2006 and 2007 when these juvenilles would have returned as adults.