G-Man
7/14/2008 10:18:00 AMDude, nice native fish. You might want to read page 37 of the regs on retention of native steelhead, the Sky or any other river in the Snohomish system is hatchery fish only.
Mike Carey
7/14/2008 11:17:00 AMHmmm, I blew the picture up, it's hard for me to say if that adipose fin is stubbed or whole. Let's hope it is stubbed...
Salmon Slayer
7/14/2008 12:06:00 PMIt does look native in the picture but from up close you can tell it was clipped. The game warden was there and he saw the fish and said it was fine.
G-Man
7/14/2008 1:04:00 PMSlayer, sorry for thinking the worst. Whoever did the clipping on that fish must have had a few cold ones before work!
Salmon Slayer
7/14/2008 2:00:00 PMG-man no worries. hey we all are just trying to look out for the fish in the end.
curado
7/16/2008 6:27:00 PMit is a pain to tell sometimes if a fish is clipped or not i got a metalhead last year of the wallace nd released it because it was clipped but still had a adipose to it
cobrar543
7/26/2008 2:59:00 PMI know were all trying to help here, and some people need it. But I always give the benifit of the doubt to the man holding a fish. Insults like Trewism gave were not helpful in the least....try to be polite at least. G and K were dead on with there advice, offered it in a contructive way. GOOD fishing bro!
Jig-N-Bob
1/13/2009 8:55:00 PMWell, the reg. book should state under special regs. on all rivers that only two hatchery steelhead can be retained. but no. it only states that on a handful of rivers. and under all the others its says trout must be 14 inches to keep nothing else. now is it the fishermens fault? or the department of fish and wildlifes fault? their very explanatory.