Surprisingly there’s been no comparison to the Oregon winter steelhead fisheries. If I’m not mistaken there is still a retention reg on the south coast, fairly robust hatchery programs up and down the coast.
With rivers like the Queets/Hoh/Quilliute drainages being every bit if not more pristine as our Oregon neighbors coastal drainages, yet we continue to struggle to get spawners on the gravel. What could the problem actually be? Could it be......SATAN!
Seems bizzare to me that this conversation has drifted off into the virtues of C&R and have ignored the most obvious culprit. One strategically placed net at the right time can decimate a push of fish.