I agree with you about bass and walleye sharing water with steelhead, but I think, if memory serves me correctly, Hawk is from Minnesota.
There, at least, the walleye and bass were there first.
I wonder who had the great idea to build dams on the Columbia, and then plant the resulting reservoirs with predator species, just in case too many smolts are surviving the dam passages.
Wouldn't want over-escapement. What a waste.
Fish on...
Todd.