Originally Posted By: Sky-Guy
I loved to float the sno and typically made it down a couple times a year. Fun river to take newbies on and get them into a fish.

The tualips had a Steelhead netting opener in all of the Area 8.1 sub areas this year, wonder if that had anything to do with the low return? we may never know.

With regards to the article, I can understand both points of view. IMO, the best course of action is to remove the hatchery fish and let the river be. Let nature fix itself, because it doesn't need Mans help by attempting to augment the population in any way. The fish will re-populate the river with a little time.


I sort of agree with this but only if the river is open for C&R. Otherwise the poaching is so off the charts the population will only go down the longer actual steelheaders are kept off the river.

I'd actually buy one of these if all the money went to enforcement of closed rivers. But how we do it now is one fish forward and 20 fish in the smoker!
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