Been digging through some old articles about the Nooch and the hatchery runs.From all the maps I have I can't find a hatchery anywhere.I know there's one on Lake Aberdeen but that doesn't seem right.Any ideas Maybe I just need a new Gazetteer

no hatchery on the nooch, i was told the fish are trucked in

The Nooch fish are from the Lake Aberdeen hatchery.

Okay.How far up the system will they migrate or I guess how far up do they truck them

The fish can migrate all the way up to the Wynoochee Dam.

Elkman

The fish can not make it all the way to the dam, there is a "falls" right close to where the fish collection trap is.

WDF, does put some fish above those falls but not many. Most of the "wild fish" are trucked up above the dam and released there, also many hatchery fish also are trucked "above the dam".

Not much wild steelhead spawning in the Wynoochee River. The river is planted with fish from the Lake Aberdeen hatchery. The water for this hatchery comes from the Wynoochee river.

"Worse day sportfishing, stillbetter than the best day working"

Thanks for the info Of course now the rivers have puked