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[Randog]

Here's a couple of shots from the Ol' USA. What do you think? I think our friends south of the boarder should maybe practice a little C&R?

[Fish Assassin]

Difficult to comment without knowing what their daily limits are. The second picture appears to show a total of 8 fish. Between the two people that's a daily limit of 4, same as in Canada.

[Sterling C]

Of course, those fish all came from hatcheries run by natives for the sake of providing guiding/commercial fishing opportunities for the natives. If that is how they choose to manage their resource so be it. Their rivers have more and bigger fish than ours.

[Oliver]

How do you know those fish came from native hatcheries, unless you have seen those pics elsewhere before. The American hatcheries pump out many, many times more hatchery fish into their rivers to ensure that more people can catch more fish. I think its because they understand that fish = fishermen = spending; $$$. From northern Washington down through California the amounts of fish that are planted in their rivers is staggering and although reforms are starting that will impact the numbers of fish (lower numbers of wild brood stock from in basin fish stocks) it would be hard to compare any of BC's steelhead hatchery practices in terms of numbers of fish produced.

[rln]

Those fish are from a hatchery river on the oly peninsula called Cook Creek. This is native run and you need to hire a native guide to fish it and the limit is 4 a day on steelhead. On the Cowlitz river they get so many hatchery fish back the limit is 3 a day.They plant over 1,000,000 steelhead smolts yearly in the Cowlitz. In washington state they have lots of streams with lots of hatchery fish so killing a limit and tagging out with your 30 fish a season punch card is still something people look forward to doing. It's a little different down there both in attitude and opportunity to fish for steelhead. To suggest that they need to practice a little more cnr is not to know about the fisheries that they have, except for 12 streams on the oly peninsula, it's all cnr for wild fish and kill for hatchery "brats" as they call them. On the streams with wild fish kill, you are allowed to kill one wild fish in total a year.

[The Gilly]

Is that a 2 day catch? I count 15 fish in the first pick. That would be 2 fish each plus 1.  Not the kind of trophy pic I like to see, but not unreasonable given local limits.

[Spudcote]

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

[Fishin Freak]

There could be more people that caught the fish then present in the picture. As long as there not breaking the law no need to worry about it.