I love to catch hatchery steelhead because I love to eat steelhead. Mike B brought up a related issue in a different thread and it really caused me to remember why the State tried to get an early return on hatchery steelhead. They really wanted the Tribes to target those fish and it has worked. The Tribal fishery is very much front loaded with effort being reduced as the wild fish come in. However, nature created a widely dispersed wild run in terms of timing and that early component of wild fish is virtually gone. One more reason that the wild fish remains the best hope for long term recovery of the resource.