The economy doesn't rely on steelhead fishing in pugetropolis. Go to any small town on a productive steelhead river(outside WA) and see hotels, diners, tackle shops full. Nobody gives two sh**ts about steelhead in suburbia because they have no economic value. The Sky and Skagit valley 30yrs ago things were a lot different. Most of the hardcore steelheaders have moved on from these places because the writing was on the wall a decade ago. The hatchery runs and fish are an absolute joke, I hope they stop planting all chambers fish. When it shuts down, it will be for good; like the cedar, Nisqually, etc.. Humpy fisherman we are