Cobble,

It's been some years, but tributary surveys for summer steelhead usually produced counts in single digits. Yeah, I suppose a very few native summer runs are still around, but the in river gillnet fishery for salmon takes a rough toll on fish that have to spend many months in the river. Ralph's side channel former sanctuary has been gone for more than 20 years, and the side channel it used to run into has been regularly netted since the 1970s.

Smalma,

Ah the law of unintended consequences . . . Baker sockeye enhancement will be very bad for Skagit chinook and steelhead if the tribes insist on mainstem gillnetting for the sockeye. Pretty rediculous with a new $25 million fishway and trap and sorting facility being constructed this year.

Sg