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Might have been 4/15......but I know Satsop, Wynoochee, Humptulips, Upper Quinault and Queets were open about that same time......Spring Vacation, for me, was around the 1st or 2nd weeks of April..caught some scary big fish "in the old days".

QIN never started gill netting steelhead until way after they got the 50% ruling....I actual think that because steelhead were under the "old game department"........Steelhead were a "game fish", not a commercial fish, so QIN pulled the nets about the end of October......It was pretty fair fishing in the Humptulips, Wynoochee, and Satsop.......until QIN decided that steelhead were "fair game" and started netting them. Now the 5 day a week December 1 - ---- ?????? has just about wiped out the Native Steelhead and working to eliminate the "late Coho"...