I've heard so much mixed info the last couple of years. I've heard that the Hump is no longer producing brats. At the same time, I've heard that they still do. What's the deal. I caught my first steelie there years ago and I wanted to try it for an hour or so on my way to the peninsula early in December.

The way I recall it is that they aren't raising steelies there, but they are still planting in the river. Try an archives search, there was a bunch of discussion on this in the past year.

yes they are still raising them in the hatchery and planting them there in the creek.. Unfortunately they arent planting very many fish anymore... and when the fish do come back they usually head right into the hatchery and not hang around like they use to when they planted through out the upper river...

The summer run was last planted in '99 by the Quinaults. It is my understanding they quit the winter run in '99 also and the ones they raise are being planted in the nooch. It is just a salmon river now. There are still a few returning, a freind caught 1 veterans day.

I think the state is trying to run us off the hump to make it a wild river. They really pushed it about ten years ago and met a lot of resistence from the land owners and fisherman. They have a suttle goal now to remove us. First no more steelhead plants. Next the salmon. You can't keep kings, chum, or native slivers when you can on other rivers.