Todd, I feel your pain. As previously stated, enforcement might be a key issue here. Another factor, at least in your Skagit/Sauk example would be a harvest issue with the tribes. As you well know, the tribes are pretty aggressive in netting Skagit system steelhead. If the recs are taking fish in March/April, even though they are only marked fish, the tribes might make a case for some harvest time during March/April. And we all know how selective their fishing methods are.

Maybe you should have Dr. Kevorkian with you during March/April for those ripe hatchery bucks...J/K