I wish I could remember just where I heard that little tidbit of info because if memory serves me right, it was from a reliable source.

Also a question for 'ya...how often does breeding occur between winter and summer fish?? Because of the morphological differances between the differnt strains, it would seem to me that say a wild Deer Creek summer-steelhead and a wild Upper Skykomish summer-steelhead would be much more genetically similiar then say a wild summer-steelhead from the Skykomish and its winter-run cousin from the same river.