Howdy,
After a winter season that could be rated fair, I'm trying to be optimistic. What was your smallest Steelhead this year? I get a couple Jack's each season. (Pilchuck R. every winter) This time around I hooked probabaly a dozen. The smallest wild fish was an eighteen in. Jill. On the same day, I C&R a fourteen in. hatchery buck. (I swear not a smolt) The fisheries people use Jack returns as an indicater of favorable ocean condition's. However, my partner Steve has a theory that Jack's are nature's way of patching up the crack's in a critical low number's situation. What do you think? Tell me something good.