Originally Posted By: Todd
As recent as the '60's sportfishers were HARVESTING over 20,000 wild steelhead from the Skagit...now the escapment goal is only 6000, and it only makes that about 2/3 of the time...

Fish on...

Todd


as recent as 13k years ago there were 0 steelhead in all of puget sound rivers and most if not all of the penninsula. Everything was under a 3000-5000 ft thick slab of ice known as the vashon ice sheet.