You are one hundred percent right on that. I spoke to Kurt Kraemer, WDFW fisheries biologist for the Snohomish and Stillaguamish drainages, and was told that there are no plans to reactivate the summer-run rearing program at Whitehorse. There were none reared there this year, and therefore no smolt releases this spring(meaning no two-salt fish in 2001). The apparent reason is that there has been "no input from the flyfishing community". The result of this policy will be no summer-run steelhead above Deer Creek and a lot more pressure (and incidental mortality) on the native Deer Creek fish. All of us fly guys and anybody who fishes the mainstem Stilly have to write Director Jeffrey Koenings, Deputy Director Larry Peck and Region 4 Director Bob Everitt. If you can find out who has replaced Bruce Crawford as Fish Management honcho in the latest purge, you might write him too.

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