A couple small streams on the Hood Canal side of the Kitsap peninsula had early winter runs that were notorius for eating eggs - they were so predictable that all you had to do is find a riffle full of spawning chum and fish the first slot or bit of cover below the riffle. You didn't even have to present the eggs on the bottom - feed a cluster down to them and they would rise right to the top to nail them. These fish would usually swallow your hook if you let them - usually I would try to hook them on a tight line so I could release them if I wanted to. Those I kept and cleaned were stuffed with chum eggs, and were very immature with small gonads - they entered the rivers in November but looked like they weren't going to spawn until March. These were all wild fish, and they pretty much all dissapeared after Boldt and during the Blum's Desert years.