Jim, I would bet my favorite fishing rod and the contents of my tackle box that there are several, if not all, of the above named watersheds (included are creeks yet!) that very doubtfully have extremely strong runs of native stelhead! What data base do they use for those contentions?? We as sportfishermen have to rely on everyone's credible and expressed years of observations to reach a strong consensus counter to theirs. And for sake of argument, lets say those streams have healthy runs of nates- should we then be allowed to harvest decline those runs until they are depleted like the vast majority of other streams have become; or has there been any LESSONS learned around the NW? If there are indeed some relatively healthy nate runs still around LETS HERE IT FOR KEEPING IT THAT WAY!!! C&R would enable that, continued harvest would not. Remember that we can eat replacable hatchery and farmed steelhead & salmon. - Steve