The steelies will come. About three years ago I landed a job as a ranger on the Deschutes R. in Oregon. In September I was on my days off helping the ODF&W tag fish at the Shears Falls and on one of those nights we tagged over 400 redsides and of those 400 about 20 were B-run Clearwater fish estimated at 15#. The tagger guy said that these fish will run the 40 miles up river and up the ladder because the columbia is too warm and the deschutes has dam releases from the bottom which create very cool and consistant water temps. He also told me that he marked down the tag of a returning redside and found out a day later that it had gone back down the deschutes, up the columbia and was caught at the john day in one days time. I wasn't there so it could be urban myth but lets face it these fish move and they go up different rivers so maybe (happy thoughs) they are either in the ocean or hanging out in another river until its time. Lets keep our fingers crossed because I am not a biologist and even they don't seem to have an answer.