Was at a dinner party recently and at the party was a local commercial fisherman from Bellingham. He knew I was a fisherman and he was bragging about all the Fraser River sockeye they netted this year, he was also telling me about the huge wild steelhead that they were pickn up in their nets. He said one was close to thirty pounds and he took a picture with it. He even said that most likely these were Thompson River fish. Its my understanding that The Thompson is a River that gets less than a thousand returning steelhead a year and from what I've seen are specimens like no other. I threw up in my mouth a little bit when he told me this.