I thought the August-September article about "tracing" N. Umpqua steelhead was one of the best I've ever read.

The ODFW puts steelhead (winter and summer, hatchery and native) up for adoption to the public and businesses for $150, as a way of getting around tight budget restraints like we have here. They capture the fish, slam a tracer into is maw, and release them to do their thing.

It begins to answer (with REAL data) some of the questions of when and how far fish travel, how long they stay in the river, what percentage get caught, released, etc. The continuing study is proving that we don't really know squat about these critters, except they go out and come back in later. Pick it up!

Hey Obsessed,

I tried to e-mail you and it didn't go. I see you changed jobs. You know me, e-mail me, you and I are fishing the same river!

TK