Do any of you guys that actually catch a lot of steelhead really kill that many? Yeah, a brite brat or two is ok for the grill, but after I get done with salmon season I have already bbqd, smoked, canned, frozen, and given away to the family so many hatchery salmon - springers, chrome coho, and monsterous bright fall chinook - that I don't need or want steelhead meat. Hell, I even let hatchery steelhead go, as they continue to bite and are likely to be caught again my me or someone else. I guess the crackers that can only catch fish with a guide are maybe going to put a dent in the population if they are allowed to kill nates, but us 10/90%ers sure aren't or shouldn't be. And really, Bob TRBO - you have got it dead to rights insisting on releasing fish - you can then go nail them the next day with new clients and likely have done so way more than you know - these fish bite repeatedly and on the same kind of gear that caught them before - even hold in the same hole or types of holes. A good guide who is on the river all the time has got to be able to figure this out - it's a tremendous business advantage to release fish to catch them another day. I don't mind killing the salmon - they go zipperlipped right away and always die after spawning anyway, but steelhead keep on biting and spawning. Like I said before - seeing those dead steelhead makes me want to hurl