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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: robodad on February 10, 2010, 10:36:30 AM

Title: I guess this counts me out !!
Post by: robodad on February 10, 2010, 10:36:30 AM: Talk about puttin on the pressure, I have a hard enough time just getting a bite !! :chuckle:

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Anglers are required to harvest hatchery origin steelhead with an adipose fin-clip and a healed scar in the location of the missing fin. There is a four (4) fish mandatory daily retention limit on adipose fin-clipped steelhead, 20-inch minimum size.

Oh and what is the reason for 2 marks ?? Which hatchery perhaps :dunno:

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Steelhead fishing rules change in the Upper Columbia
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Allow the retention of hatchery-origin adipose fin-clipped steelhead with circular (hole) punches in the caudal (tail) fin, Feb. 12, 2010.
Close the Wenatchee River to steelhead fishing midnight February 28, 2010.
Close sections of the Okanogan River around the mouths of Omak and Bonaparte creeks as of March 15, 2010.

https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=848 (https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=848)
Title: Re: I guess this counts me out !!
Post by: fishcrazy on February 10, 2010, 11:05:43 AM: I think those are recyled fish from the hatchery. They use a hole punch to mark them and put them back in the river to catch later.
IE surplus fish.
Kris
Title: Re: I guess this counts me out !!
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on February 10, 2010, 12:30:06 PM: Those steelhead in the Upper C with holes punched in their tails were anaesthetized for sampling last fall, and not safe for consumption, so release was required. They have been in the river long enough now they are safe to eat, drugs out of their systems; so the hatchery fish (adipose clipped) are being added back in to the mandatory retention.
Title: Re: I guess this counts me out !!
Post by: Sporting_Man on February 10, 2010, 07:30:18 PM: They must be dark as hell by now. Also, some of those are beat-up, you don't even want to see them.
Title: Re: I guess this counts me out !!
Post by: Tealer on February 10, 2010, 07:53:50 PM: Dark is ok on a steelhead the return to the ocean to spawn again. They don't just swim up and die like salmon.