So… a buddy of mine hooked a steelie on the Cowlitz above Blue Creek (the actual creek) on the main river…

It was a keeper, but the thing that was weird was that it had a “tag” attached to it's back just behind the dorsal fin… it looked like a piece of monofilament with what looked like plastic wire wrap… it also had WDFW 07### on the plastic tag and KALAMA RIVER…

So, he kept that tag (until the *&%$#@ cat licked/ate the tag off the kitchen counter), now the question is… if you get a tag like that are you suppose to send it in? Also, it appears that that steelie was following the wrong crowd home… Is that kind of a common thing?

Tight Lines