OK, I have a few words to say... I know for a fact that a few years ago, the Elwah river TRIBAL steelhead hatchery did not bother clipping all, or even any of the smolts they released. Therefore making a wild steelhead release unthinkable and unfair in the eyes of most sporties, and I am one that saw it as unfair. To this day, I know for a fact that they are still maybe if we are lucky, clipping 50% of the fish, in order to "leave more for the nets" as I see it, And as I know to be true, I have never caught a true native fish (What appeared to be) That had a ruffled dorsal, unless it had other marks on it, such as seal marks, whatever... But I have kept tabs on all of the "MARKED" fish that I have caught, and probably 95% of all of them had ruffled, or almost missing adipose fins. As well as fishing on the Elwah and Lyre, and catching 5 or 6 fish in a day, and all of them are right around the same size, same condition, same fin characteristics, except for most of them had INTACT ADIPOSE FINS! While known to me as hatchery fish, they were unclipped.. why don't they put some sort of regulation like the Hoh Dorsal reg on the rivers that really need it/could use it?

Tom