The Big White Salmon gets an average of 24000 hatchery winter steelhead smolt a year. So there "are" winter steelhead planted above the dam, and don't forget the Hood River it gets some as well.......

As far as summer fish, the Wind River doesn't get a hatchery plant but get's plenty of strays during the warm water times of the Columbia in late June and July and August being the prime time. They pull in the Wind, Big White Salmon and Little White Salmon and Klickitat to cool off........

Years ago this was a well kept secret and some amazing fishing in the tidewater areas of those lower rivers.....

Keith