yeah i dont care too much about all of that...

Chambers Creek is a damn sh!thole... whats so special about the Steelhead there?

heres a novel idea...

if rivers Steelhead runs allow for "help", meaning the run size is sufficient, do a Snider style program and breed them in the river... use the own rivers stock and breed them, dont bring outside fish into the mix, thats like putting 2 Betas in the same bowl...

if the DONT or arent capable of doing that, shut the river down to fishing for 5 years minimum, and look at it closely to see what happens... we have our hatchery rivers, IE, Green, Cow, Puke (was), Sky, ect ect ect.... dont screw up another river introducing non native stock into and expect it to do any different than any other rivers that are completely wasted now of wild fish...

this is only about money with them... i wouldnt be suprised if the took the alloted money they had aside for the Steelhead program, and dumped it into say the Chinook program to produce 3 times the amount of fish there, just to do it....

its about money, not the fish... always has been, always will be.. they probably use the Chambers stock because a ton return a whole 1/2 mile from the mouth to the wall.... yippie, tough fish for sure...