I don't think that you will find many fly fishermen on the N. Fk. Stilly who oppose the stocking of hatchery fish. I would say that at least 90% of the fishing pressure on the Stilly is above the mouth of Deer Creek and, therefore, targeting hatchery fish. The Whitehorse Rearing Ponds are a perfect example of the proper uses of hatchery fish; to provide an excellent fishery that would not otherwise exist, with no impact on the river's native stocks. As a matter of fact, Kraemer told me a month or so ago that there is virtually no interaction between the wild Deer Creek stocks and the Skamania-derived hatchery fish. I, like most other people had assumed that funding of Reiter Ponds would mean funding of the satellite rearing pond facilities as well. At the moment, Whitehorse Ponds will remain in use as a winter steelhead rearing facility only.