Huge steelhead!

[BigGoonTuna]

I would rather clean floors and toilets than support those folks. To each is own I guess.

yep, it's always seemed like a big slap in the face to us sportsmen that they net the hell out of the chehalis, humptulips and queets systems, but the lower quinault gets big returns of fish because they actually manage it(and keep it off limits unless you have a guide).  every one of those other rivers would have as good of fishing if they weren't hammered by the QIN's nets.  not to mention the irony of the quinault hatchery being run by the US federal government in a sovereign nation.

[_TONY_]

I would rather clean floors and toilets than support those folks. To each is own I guess.

+10000000000

Quinn's are the worst... Don't given them any $$

[Dan-o]

WOW!!!!!!       

Those are some AMAZING steelhead!

[wildmanoutdoors]

Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...

Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.

Stud fish just the same.

Brood stock fish are netted in the lake as they head up the upper river. These fish are netted in the lower river and sent to New York and such to resturants. Thats why there dead at the Fishhouse in Tahola.

So yes! They are created for harvest!

By netting in the lake it insures pure native strain. Useing these big hatchery fish to broodstock would eventually lead to a poorer genetic strain.

[Bullkllr]

Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...

Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.

Stud fish just the same.

Brood stock fish are netted in the lake as they head up the upper river. These fish are netted in the lower river and sent to New York and such to resturants. Thats why there dead at the Fishhouse in Tahola.

So yes! They are created for harvest!

By netting in the lake it insures pure native strain. Useing these big hatchery fish to broodstock would eventually lead to a poorer genetic strain.

Thanks. I'm somewhat aware of the general way the coast tribes run their fisheries.

So they must also capture at the hatchery at the lake and sell the surplus? (OP said "made it all the way to the hatchery") or the fish was gillnetted lower on the river and never made it to the hatchery. Not that it matters, but that what I was wondering when I saw the pic.

[wildmanoutdoors]

Shame the ones in the pictures were not "held for spawning"...

Besides being a broodstock program it must also be a harvest program.

Stud fish just the same.

Brood stock fish are netted in the lake as they head up the upper river. These fish are netted in the lower river and sent to New York and such to resturants. Thats why there dead at the Fishhouse in Tahola.

So yes! They are created for harvest!

By netting in the lake it insures pure native strain. Useing these big hatchery fish to broodstock would eventually lead to a poorer genetic strain.

Thanks. I'm somewhat aware of the general way the coast tribes run their fisheries.

So they must also capture at the hatchery at the lake and sell the surplus? (OP said "made it all the way to the hatchery") or the fish was gillnetted lower on the river and never made it to the hatchery. Not that it matters, but that what I was wondering when I saw the pic.

Yes and no, if the hatchery fish makes it back and they capture it they will send it to the fish house. All hatchery fish are surpus that make it back. They only use pure wild fish for brooding. 

[deerhunter_98520]

All I was told was that this fish made it back to the hatchery....no matter where it came from I thought it was worth sharing with everyone because of its size...I have no idea if that's what happened for sure that's just what I was told...but you guys know how trophy pics and stories get twisted throughout the grapevine......you just don't see 30+lb steelhead very often....or at least I don't

[jackelope]

That picture has been all over Facebook for a week or so now.

[deerhunter_98520]

Was there a story with it?

[Bullkllr]

All I was told was that this fish made it back to the hatchery....no matter where it came from I thought it was worth sharing with everyone because of its size...I have no idea if that's what happened for sure that's just what I was told...but you guys know how trophy pics and stories get twisted throughout the grapevine......you just don't see 30+lb steelhead very often....or at least I don't

Oh, I see 'em every week....

Thanks for sharing the pic. I had not seen it. And a fish that big deserves to be celebrated.

[h2ofowlr]

I got this pic sent to me today....this huge buck made it all the way to the hatchery on the quinault...was told it weighed 32lbs! 

This picture went around last week on Fishing Addicts.  It said it was caught in a tribal net.

[RaffleMule]

Did this one go around too?  Whether you agree with it or not the QIN might be doing something right.  31 lbs... And I've seen 5 over 30 lbs this year. 

[deerhunter_98520]

 

[Spawnstar]

Nice fish

[Coastal_native]

The OP fish was definitely caught in a gill net.