You're the man Dave...I agree. I was just "fishing" and wondering. I had read a few posts about the crowds. I suppose if you look at a Washington river that has a big hatchery run and then turns to C&R at a certain date then maybe that is where I got my theory.

Bottom line is that C&R on wild steelhead seems like a no brainer to me.

Previous hunting analogies didn't wash too much. Hard to C&R an elk.