Some hatchery fish are good at it...some are marginal...some really suck, bad...

The worse thing about the bad ones (Chambers Creek steelhead being the absolute worse) is that they spawn with wild fish and take the wild fish contribution to the next generation out of the system as assuredly as a gillnet or fish bonker.

Others, like winter steelhead broodstock programs, typically take fish out of the system to make a smaller amount of fish than if they just left the wild fish in the river to do their thing...and those fish are harvestable...double whammy.

Fish on...

Todd