Hey Junky, I called the WDFW game enforcement office yesterday and the guy I talked to backed up what I thought about being able to keep a steelhead with ALL of it's fins. He said that you could. I read the part about releasing "wild" steelhead unless stated otherwise, well the statement about releasing fish with a clipped right ventral fin would be stating otherwise. In the same special rules section for other rivers there are statements about releasing wild steelhead, it doesn't state that in the Cowlitz section.

By the way, Junky, I'll break the law when I feel like breaking the law.