NO ONE on this board has a deeper appreciation for wild steelhead than I do. My wife considers herself a Feb-May widow. I not only have a driftboat, I have 2. One for the pen, one for the S rivers. I have 10 acres on the pen, gloomis rods out the yang, tackle boxes overflowing with the most expensive gear money buys. All this to pursue wild steelhead. All that aside, there is no realistic way any native steelhead still swimming up the cowlitz. And we have zero luck introducing steelhead with the intention of them sustaining a wild population. I say keep the cowlitz the hatchery fish machine it is. I hate to agree with CFM, but I think think the power company [Bleeeeep!] us on this one. I don't think they give a damn about wild fish, only saving $ on the production of hatchery fish.