Originally Posted By: Eric
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these steelhead are being caught above shepfalls. so i'm certain thier not strays. i can understand hatch fish in the trib mouths. i'm referring to well within the trib.


Why? A stray can navigate the fish ladder at the falls just as easily as a wild fish or planted hatchery fish. Years ago, I landed a sphagetti-tagged summer run on the upper Wynoochee.....turns out it was a stray from the Columbia River system!


Exactly.......... I've caught spaghetti tagged kalama summer runs in both the NF and EF of the Lewis....... They bounce all over the place.....

I've also landed a sockeye in the Lewis seen summer chums in the Lewis and witnessed 2 pinks that were landed in the Lewis last year............. Wierd stuff going on out there!

Keith grin
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