something about southern BC steelhead returns. If you take 3 river systems out of the picture (stamp/somass,cowichan and chillawack/vedder) There are more steelhead expected to return this year to the Skagit and Snohomish systems than the entire south coast of BC including vancouver island. We routinely fish rivers with returns of 100-200 fish or even less. A local vancouver river was swam by our WLAP people counting steelhead at the end of February and they counted 3 winter steelhead in the entire river along with 11 summer steelhead. The river is open to steelheading with a 2 fish per day limit on hatchery fish. Good management or what. The ten fish days on the Gold river are a thing of the distance past with total run sizing below 500 winter steelhead. You guys may think your hatchery programs are poor and they don't help wild fish but you should come up here and fish over no fish abd see how poor it really is. I have purchased a washington state license because our winter steelheading here is so good. I just have to now get over US custom delays of about one hour checking out to see if I own my boat,truck,etc. I would fish washington more if crossing the border was less stressful.