I think they're not planting summer runs in the Raging River any more, and they stopped planting them in the Tolt long ago, since neither have collection facilities...

That being said, you can catch clipped Skamania summer runs virtually everywhere, as they are virtually everywhere until the fall rains come, and they all head back to their hatchery of origin. The closer your river of choice is to a hatchery, even if your river doesn't have one, the more you'll find. My favorite handful of "hatchery" runs in the summer are on rivers that haven't been planted with summer runs, some for decades.

Unlike their Chambers Creek cousins, the Skamania hatchery steelhead enter the rivers many months before they are ready to spawn, and their distribution is statewide, at least until they start feeling the urge to hit the hatcheries, which, like I said above, is usually the first good rain in October.

That's why we get the big run of "swinters" in October and November wherever there are summer run hatchery programs, those fish have been all over the place since May, but all of those randomly straying fish head back out to the Sound and head up their origin river in the late fall.

Fish on...

Todd