Very little is accomplished in western wa in regards to habitat protection, steelhead management, and enforcement. Having grown up on the upper sky and now living on the upper Clearwater in Idaho, the ways of managing a resource is night and day. Today I watched f&g collecting broodstock from fisherman via hook n line, trucks with tracking devices studying migration rates, and enforcement doing their thing. Lots of hatchery fish, lots of wild, and lots of river for people to spread out and catch fish. If everyone was on the same page we could have killer steelhead fisheries in PS for native steel and hatchery fish, or do nothing and get what it is now...

In regards to hooking mortality and reproduction; a buddy messed around with a big buck hatch only to have leader snap and fish roll back to the drink. 10 min later I hook same fish and gave him his hook back and said, " told u steelhead weren't puss***"