I caught the same hen on the upper Queets 3 times in one day - real obvious 16 pound pig of a fish with a distinctive seal bite on her tail. I first hooked this fish at the head of a nice run behind a big rock, released her, then fished out the rest of the drift - took about 20 minutes. I was working upriver to meet my buddies, so as I walked by that rock I threw the same rig in there and bam, fish on - same fish. Released her again, fished my way upstream, eventually ran into my buddies and as we walked back down the trail that ran by this particular run I told them about this fish. The trail went right by the rock as I was telling the story, so I pitched my gear behind it and blamo, same fish, same spot - really cool as I called it I have caught quite a few other fish twice but this is the only one I have caught 3 times, but I would say that released fish probably bite many times - why not, wild steelhead spawn and get hungry again on their way back downstream so there is no biological imperative to become zipperlipped like salmon or hatchery steelhead, whose ancestors certainly never spawned twice For this reason alone I would release steelhead even in the mythical rivers where the runs are supposed to be "healthy" - you kind of screw up the fishing if you remove the fish - duh