I wonder what it was like on the Skagit River 100 years ago?? No hatchery fish, buttloads of volkswagen size Native steel... What do we have left in this state - scrawny hatchery 3-6 lb waste of space, and a few good runs of Native Steel. They are basically all we have left of the past, fish with the same genes as Ralph Wahl, Enos Bradner and the like fished for and made famous.
Anyone who kills Native steel in this day and age has no respect for the race and the future of the greatest fricken game fish ever... Your a desperate, disgraceful, poor excuse for a steelheader and a sportsmen!
Hatchery fish are for filling freezers, if you cant get enough of those stay home

Put that under your pillow computer
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown