Frankly the river being down for whatever the reason is best. The lates are in the Chehalis are primarily from the Satsop with Bingham Cr & the East Fork the main source. The west Fork Satsop, is where most of the old Jan fish came from other streams have some but mostly remnants. Simply put jamming that many Recs into that sub basin with depressed runs would border on foolish to stupid. The state harvest was modeled in as well as tribal through the fall season to the winter steelhead fishery. Where the states impacts were used was WDF&W's choice.

Now the Dec Steelhead bit that is not a Steelhead fishery but a incidental Coho fishery has been booted about in other threads but the truth is that it was old WDG that got that bit going not the tribes . WDF ( now the combined WDF&W ) did zip, nuthin, nada so now it has been institutionalized and about impossible to reform.