[Ppppp]

Given a choice of 2 rivers where would you go first.

 

[Jeremy Floyd]

My two choices.. Upstream, then down

 

[Salmo_g]

More info needed. Would I have whichever river I choose all to myself, or would it be an accessible stream open to all anglers and riff raff? And is it summer run or winter run?

 

[Jeremy Floyd]

Steve-o. Let me know when you're in WL.

Try to meet you for Lunch or something.

 

[Ppppp]

More info needed. Would I have whichever river I choose all to myself, or would it be an accessible stream open to all anglers and riff raff? And is it summer run or winter run?

Your over thinking this. But I'll play along Skagit on a saturday

 

[The Drifter]

Whichever one is closest to the Forks bowling alley.

 

[jersey]

The one where others are absent

 

[phuck this]

Seems how I already fish rivers with only 600 steelhead, I chose 3000 summer runs!!

 

[Manwell Lotion]

Chambers creek fish or Skamania?

 

[Carter Burke]

You'll catch more fish on 600 wild fish than 3000 hatchery fish,

 

[Old Man]

Montana.

 

[Delete MeToo]

A chrome steelhead on a remote river, snowcapped peaks, green water, and a nice gravel bar with a run of 3-7' depth dotted with mid sized boulders....... clipped fin or not, count me in.....

 

[FinLuver]

River or Lake??

River

 

[Buck]

Steelhead are tasty.

 

[Ppppp]

You'll catch more fish on 600 wild fish than 3000 hatchery fish,

I knew that, that was what made me wonder about the question.

And cost the state alot less

 

[Salmo_g]

You'll catch more fish on 600 wild fish than 3000 hatchery fish,

Like most things fishing related, it depends. 600 wild winter runs in a river that is blown out much of the time won't yield many hook ups. Conversely, 3,000 hatchery summer runs in optimal September and October water conditions could produce many hook ups per day, including surface takes. But generally yes, wild steelhead yield more hook ups, about 3 to 1, over their hatchery counterparts.

Good food for thought. At O'dark-thirty tomorrow morning I'm off to a river that averages 8,000 wild summer runs per year.

Sorry Jeremy, we're not doing the WL layover. Joe's a driving maniac, blowing right past WL, going all the way to Nimpo in one day, thence to Hagensborg Saturday.

 

[Carter Burke]

I knew that, that was what made me wonder about the question.

And cost the state alot less

However if there was a river that had 10 miles and 600 wild fish there it's either a well guarded secret or is over run with people..... Or those 600 fish are in closed waters in the case of West side summer runs.

 

[Ppppp]

However if there was a river that had 10 miles and 600 wild fish there it's either a well guarded secret or is over run with people..... Or those 600 fish are in closed waters in the case of West side summer runs.

Very true. That's why I didn't State summer run