Thanks to obsessed and salmo g. you 2 guys know your stuff....I cant help but think about the small creeks that run all up and down the skagit. In 1962 michigan traded lake trout eggs with washington for salmon eggs. Michigan never opened a hatchery, they just dropped smolt into all the creeks and rivers along the highways the salmon scented the the creeks and took care of the reproduction cycle on there own......by the way the lake trout were put in the highland lakes and are called Mackinaw after the hatchery they came from on the tip of the lower pennisula of michigan (the mitten)........PS.. its just a sick feeling knowing that this years eggs either were washed away or covered in mud, add a few comorants and boom there go all the perspective adult returners before they ever make it out of the river.