according to the game pamphlet, the retaining of a steelhead is hatchery only. i personally have not seen a finclipped steelhead in years. there seems to be plenty of steelhead being caught on the wind this spring. so brewer has always thought the wind river was part of the skamania planting project. well because the wind has no steelhead hatchery of it's own. so i called the skamania hatch today to ask some ????s about the hatchery steelhead program. well according to skamania they have never planted any steelhead in the wind. so here lies the problem with game pamphlet.... if it's a true native fish population only on the wind, why isn't a no steelhead retention rule?

now the hatch guy had no clue about the wind and who was planting it, if it is at all. does anyone know if the wind actually recieves any steelhead smolt planting? if so, where are the smolts coming from?

another mystery going on here is that the steelhead that are being caught are NOT summer steelhead. the hens have single eggs, the males are red striped winter fish. according to the bonnidam guys they claim there is not a winter run above the bonni. ?????s

brewer guesses then, that this also falls under the salmon don't travel the dam at night also.

anyone have answers to any of this?