That's my river man..... I'll never forget that morning in February when I was 10 years old camping with my scout troop when I landed my first steelhead. Talk about planting a seed. I love the deschutes. However, I blame a large portion of the fish mortality on Capitol Lake. Coincidentally, the Deschutes gets an enormous amount of kings back each year though. This year they received over 5000 back to the hatchery. While unlikely to restore other runs, I'm guessing that it still may be possible. We did water testing on the Deschutes when I was in high school and were surprised to find relatively clean water. Sounds like Salmo has more info than I do though. If the steelhead run were to come back can you picture a better jig stream?