Maybe if we didnt have so many special interest groups, we might get something done in the steelhead world. The cowlitz thing does sound like a crock of crap though... It would be tough to turn a whack em' stack em' river to a 90% CNR river. WDFW needs to figure out a way to 100% seperate hatchery and native steelhead so both can prosper and sportsman can have harvest and #'s (natives).
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown