GBL,

Unless there is something very different about Situk dollies, they, like all char spawn in the fall, while steelhead spawn in the spring. The dollies are most likely on a foraging migration for smolts and perhaps loose steelhead eggs. Dollies, bull trout, or native char if you will, generally over winter in fresh water in coastal WA streams after spawning the previous fall, and move downstream in the very early spring to forage on outmigrating salmon fry and smolt.

I'll come up one of theses days and check it out.

Sg