My question with this thread is what is the purpose in having hatchery fish? For sportsman to catch, right? I believe the norm is that hatchery fish and native fish spawning DO NOT make the run healthier! So really what you are trying to say is that by harvesting a fish that "by design" isn't hopefully gonna be caught is somehow, GOOD??? Hatchery fish are there to be caught/harvested by sportsman! It seems to me that many of you have an elitest attitude about this and it ruins your day that "I fish with a 2 inch leader and catch hatchery fish and Joe-blow uses and nine fooooot leader and he catches more fish than me" Come on guys, we're talking about meat holes vs a stretch of river. Flossing isn't nearly as effective where the fish arn't concentrated....like hatchery holes. Hatchery fish NEED to be harvested to not spoil our Native fish gene pools. Get over the semantics and elitist attitudes........I fish blue creek weekly and see alot of flossing, but I also see alot of people releasing foul hooked fish.

What r hatchery fish for? If they escape, do they strengthen our wild fish? No, so escentially the snaggers, flosser, legal fishermen are doing the Nates a big favor!!!! Everything else is just our pride getting inthe way!!!!