Had to comment-probably as it's raining hard out and a guy as old and sweet as I could melt under these conditions. I used to steelhead fish a lot from the banks of small wadeable creeks and rivers on the peninsula and hood canal: Duckabush, Dosewallips, Morse creek, Salt Creek, Lyre River, East & West Twin, Deep Creek, Pysht and Clallam.... you get the picture. Only the Pysht and Clallam were netted then. Now, if you look at the regulations you will find only some are C & R or are open when steelhead are not expected to be present or for hatchery only. This looks good on paper until you realize there have been no hatchery plants for a number of years on these rivers which are too small to float. C & R is just not an option on these small creeks-witness the lack of a number of cars/trucks you see along side parking areas at those streams open to C & R. WDFG and their biologists have systematically made those streams non-fishable. One way to make them fishable again is to plant them and open them up to create more diversified areas to fish for when the fish return. Habitat and population have not changed in the last 50 years in those areas. If each of you open and read the regulations, you will find similar situations in areas you know and 'used' to fish!