You can put all the blame on corporate polluters, tribal netting, etc. but what good does it do when you bonk a nate that has made it past the nets and pollution?

NO GOOD AT ALL!!

As for you, aestrolab, you have a right granted by the state to retain wild steelhead but that doesn't mean it is ethical. You may not feel guilty now, but when there are two wild steelhead remaining statewide and they are both males, then you can thank yourself for adding to the demise. The expression two wrongs don't make a right comes into play here. It's bad enough that nonsportsmen are killing off the wild steelhead so why should the sportsmen make it any worse than it already is?

Life is short...fish hard and release wild steelhead!!!