Lunch Time, go ahead and post the picture, or mail it to me and I will. If I remember correctly, that fish was caught mid-April?

F5A, it is against the law to NOT mark those fish when they are released. In spite of your opinions, they are indeed hatchery fish. And they are generally not released as fry. For most broodstock programs the only difference between them and regular hatcheries is the adult fish they spawn in the hatchery...the rest is identical.

Smalma, even if there are only a few fish left in the river to spawn, like in the case of the Skagit and Sauk, why should they be released if caught in March or April?

What if we're talking the Satsop or Wynoochee, or the Skookumchuck, where hatchery fish run much later than PS hatchery fish?

Fishjunky, not to put too fine a point on it, the reason people don't recognize hatchery and wild fish as the same is because they're not. Not even close, unless you're a farmer from Oregon or Northern California.

To make your example work, you would have to have one twin raised by wolves and one raised in Buckingham Palace, and the one raised by the Queen would have to bark and howl as well as the one raised by wolves, without ever meeting wolves. Or have one drop out of high school while one gets an MBA, and the dropout can do financial statements as well as the MBA.

It's not impossible, just really damned unlikely.

Fish on...

Todd.