Sf ... Yes, I'm a guide on the Forks-area rivers. It has been our company policy since day one (over ten years now) of a no-kill policy on wild steelhead regardless of whether or not it's legal where we fish on a given day.

You can visit these pages for our postings regarding this:

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/winsteelhead.htm

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/winsteelhead.htm

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/waregs.htm

We've also eliminated some high-mortality methods of fishing to decrease our impact. If it comes to the point where our runs are facing the dire straits that many of the state's rivers are ... yes, I'll beach my boat. I did this fall before the closures were emplaced when we saw how much trouble the salmon were facing.

We're fighting for the continued health of runs ... the track record around these parts is always too little too late it seems and we're trying to our part to see that doesn't happen.

We catch very few steelhead in our Alaska fishery .. there are a few holdover spawners that we see in the spring and a few early fish at the very end of our silver season.

Guess what, state law requires the release ... not even a removal from the water, of these fish.

Many may not agree with my views, but no one can ever accuse of me not trying to live up to what I preach