All i know is I can walk into cook creek or salmon river with my Quinault buddy any day of the week from late November to March and catch steelhead. Why? Because they absolutely stuff them with fish. Cook creek alone gets nearly 400,000 fish planted a year. Thats the answer, not protecting a couple of fish. Stock baby stock. Imagine if the Humptulips, Wynoochee, Satsop and skookumchuck had 300,000+ winter run plants each? It would be a world class destination. 500,000 in the skagit? Sure! Why not? That river could sustain it. The Quinault and Salmon river hatcheries should be the models for our state hatcheries not the envy of the states tributary fisherman.

We need to plug more than one or two rivers. Plain and simple. Spread out the pressure. Soon, everyone will be fishing the OlyPenn. Those rivers are on the way to being just like the "S" I-5 rivers...