With no management plan put in place and hatchery plants reduced to collection facilities only, it seems like something has to give?? If hatchery fish are cut out, and most PS systems are not anywhere close to capacity, then basically all rivers will be closed for foreseeable future? Hatchery plants are so low that most systems are stuggling to reach escapement and it provides very little sport unless you are fishing the terminal zones.

I don't see how early timed hatchery fish have much of an effect on the natives... how does a December brat effect a feb/march/april nate?

I guess that's why I do most of my steelheading out of Washington now, plenty of fish(nates/hatch) and no crowds... Although I hate to see what Washington steelheading has become.