Todd -
As you likely recall the Wild Salmonid Policy established broad guidelines or sideboards for management while the draft steelhead management plan put forth the actual management details. The state is in the process of reviewing and will be seeking input on draft steelhead plan with the goal of establishing a final plan in 2006.

In the past when CnR fisheries have been established that targeted wild steelhead they have always been selective fisheries. This goes back more than 20 years to the CnR fisheries on Puget Sound streams as well as then more recent seasons such as those on the upper Quilleyute tribs above highway 101.

Given the desire by many for consistent and conservative management of the wild steelhead resource anything other than selective gear restriction would seem to make little sense.

Tight lines
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