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I don't see how the I-5 corridor is turned into a "fly flicker's paradise" with no steelhead programs and no steelhead seasons, unless you assume fly flickers only fish for sea run cutthroat.

The next couple winters after this season are going to be pretty grim in Puget Sound, with the only hatchery winter program being on the Sky. Yet when I think back, fishing for hatchery winter runs has been pretty poor for me in Puget Sound for quite a few years. Most of my fishing friends who fish the Skagit stopped caring about hatchery winter runs years ago, because the Skagit hatchery run, but for a couple exceptional years, has been way less productive than the wild run for the last three decades.

The Sedro meeting was attended by a few fly flickers, but the Wildcat whack 'em and stack 'em mentality was even better represented. So I'm not sure what your point is.

Sg