If you can hook 20 wild steelhead a day you are a better fisherman than I (which may be the case either way \:\)

But... >>as an individual you are allowed to C&R 20 fish in any given day that equals one dead fish per person. PERIOD! I as an individual am allowed one dead fish per day to eat it is still one dead fish PERIOD!

5% would be the accurate figure based on barbless C&R studies.

So if you catch and kill the only fish you hook (I would say one or two fish would be a realistic number statewide of steelhead fishing success- maybe that number is high).

If 100 catch and keep fishers are on the water, with a limit of one, and success in hooking one, we have 100 less steelhead available to hook again, or to spawn. If 100 C&R fishermen are on the water 5 (or 5%) are killed incidentally, which leaves 95 steelhead in the system to fish for and spawn.

Without adding tribe and commercial catch (another battle) how do you suggest that C&R is killing as many fish as catch and keep?