I'm of the understanding that virtually all of the PNW coastal sturgeon are either "Columbia" or "Fraser" fish...but only to the extent that they spawn in one of those two rivers...otherwise they spend the rest of the year all over the place, in most coastal streams and in most Puget Sound streams, and in the salt and Puget Sound proper.

There are still springers in the Chehalis system, but not in the lower tribs...you can go up to the Newaukum in the summer and see the hillbillies "fishing for cutthroat" with salmon gear and snagging them out of the deeper holes.

Fish on...

Todd