Now that returns of wild native steelhead are shifting into high gear for the year, it's a good time to review some valuable points from this old thread:

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Consider culling every legal hatchery fish out of your favorite steelhead stream, whether or not you even want to retain a fish, or even if it's a boot. If legal to do so, please bonk it and tag it... what you do with it afterwards is up to you. If you know someone who could use the meat, save it for them, otherwise consider "donating" the carcass back to the river from whence it came to help with nutrient enhancement.
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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