Look at the nooch, hump, queets, satsop, hoh and this year and many years past my boat has caught very many spawned out clipped fish, all the way to the close, these fish spawned in the gravel and at the same time we are catching spawned out nates, So you are telling me, they are not spawning togather and there are no mixing of the genes. Give me a break.... Doc you can post it as you wish, true Wild Native don't exist. Now if they come from that system and spawn in the gravel, And this is what you call Wild Natives. Then yes they do exist. But the hatchery buck and hen that spawned in the gravel, or the hatchery buck, with he per say wild hen that spanwed in the gravel. now in 2-5 years will come back with fins to the same system and now be classified as Wild Native. I think Muts.... No different, one generation removed from the tank, and this has been going on for 40plus years. And if I am catching spawners, they are spawning with something somewhere. My point is, You are not going to get rid of hatcheries, So the best of what you consider the worst would be in basin Broodstock. The current fish have no time seperation, I catch them bright all the way until the close is April. And if eggs in the gravel are considered Wild Native, I pulled some future Wild Natives parents off the redd two days ago, and one was missing a fin, big nice hen she was. I let her go back o do her deed with the dink finned buck she was courting. I have boated many many fish this year as in years past, And the hatchery fish through the years has become more and more noticible in my wild fish we catch. Mudbloods. The beautiful little 8-12 crome high finner hens I see in alot of picture, look the same as the 8-12lb crome bright clipped fin hens that are also in the same sequence of pictures. P.S very educated, Spend many days afloat. And like I said. "figures don't lie, liers figure." don't believe everything you read. Believe what you see with your own eyes. I have seen alot in 40 years of chasing metal.... Only in-basin stock should be used for the basin they are intended for....