The other day I was fishing on the North lewis river across from the hatchery about 1/4 mile above the snagging hole. Anyway there were several guys on the far side drifting bait. Eash one of the guys caught 8 or 9 small fish i think they were probably sea-run cutts, none of them hooked a steelhead.

Anyway here is my question. These guys were using bait and caught over a daily limit of trout, even though these fish were released shopuldn't they have stopped fishing??? It is illegal to continue fishing after releaseing a daily limit of trout caught on bait..

By the way we were there for about 4 hours and saw 3 fish hooked. 1 on a bobber and jig, one on thoes smelly jelly fake eggs and my friend hooked one on a purple spey fly fished on a 15 ft type 3 sink tip

RA3,
Those weren't cutthroat you saw those guys catching they were spring chinook jacks. The river is loaded with them right now and they are almost a neucence. So they don't really apply to the "trout" rule. There isn't even a residential trout in that river they are all hatchery smolt that are headed out to the ocean to come back in two years as our steelhead.
Keith

There are trout there I caught 1 about a 14 inch sea-run cutthroat I did catch a chinook jack about the same size also..
I didnt realize there were so many jacks in the river I just figured the one I caught was a fluke..

Now if the season is open, and the fish are large enough, what's the problem with keeping jacks?
Matt