Steelhead Fishing North Umpqua Spey

Small Stream Salmon Fishing, Dean Finnerty lands a dandy steelhead with a green butt skunk and a spey rod on the North. Retained for conservation purpose. Produced by Matthew Clark

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Sports

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• steelhead
• spey
• flyfishing
• salmon
• skating
• waking
• umpqua
• rouge
• finnerty

[smallstreamsalmon]

Good question. The fish can not be sold but the fish is removed because it is a hatchery fish bound for another part of the river and there would be nothing at all natural about this fish breeding with a wild fish. The fish is removed to protect those fish that are native to the North fork and do infact spawn naturaly. IM not sure why Northern California and southern Oregon have not told their public what happens when hatchery fish interbreed with natives. Look North for education on thissubject

[smallstreamsalmon]

Well it is my feeling that the hatchery fish are put there for us to kill and are no longer used to supplement the natural runs....we saw what this causes on the Clackamas river through the 80's so with that in mind it is always best to go ahead and retain them when found any where in the river. and this would be more true in the upper river areas passed any hatchery or dam point where they can be removed. The idea is to not let hatchery fish spawn with wild fish if possible.

[crowdcor225]

Very nice steelhead... Awesome casting by Jean. My congrats to him and to Donnie for making this video...

[prosteelheader]

nice!!!

[sage1wt]

@Machster10 I wish I could agree with you; although I have seen many people conventional fishing who have no Idea what the rules are and keep every fish they catch. I don't think that food should go to waste. It is a diffucult controversy to argue about. who really is right?

[JohnnyTubesock]

Well Done !!!!!

[Machster10]

You should just throw hatchery fish up on the bank to rot. It makes an actual statement against the hatchery program by having a pile of rotting fish on the bank, for everyone to smell. It serves as a reminder of the harm hatchery programs cause rather than validating the very purpose of these hatchery programs, which is, the value of harvesting for personal consumption. It likes busting elephant poachers but keeping the confiscated ivory tusks for your own carvings.

[TallFlyGuy]

You tube won't let me post the link to the native fish society dot org. Just do a search for hatchery steelhead vs. native steelhead hood river, and google will take you right to it.

[vampx2k7]

All hatchery fish should be retained if caught! as good as the hatchery idea is if the fish are allowed to take over the wild run and mix genetics with them they will be weak and natural selection will fail.

[fishontipup]

@shadyjdsummers

What in the world are you talking about? Hatchery fish are no where near "sterile" they have all the goods to reproduce and they most definately do just that. How do you think they ran the hatchery programs for the first 20 years before the broodstock program came along? By spawning hatchery fish with hatchery fish to the next generation of.... HATCHERY FISH.

[matsucharters]

Nice fish Dean. I liked the Strike better than anything. This is Martin.

[shadyjdsummers]

@smallstreamsalmon the hatchery fish cannot affect the natives beacuse the hatchery fish are sterile therefore they cannot reproduce,also the hatchery fish generally dont go past the hatchery ,once they die off, they enrich the enviornment like all spawners do.i hope this helps, im in oregon,but did the western washington salmon rivers there for years,and thats my understanding of the washington state fisheries anyhow

[Fecious1]

Another amateur biologist culling the stream. I promote a "catch and cook philosophy when applicable. That river is fished so hard, I'd be thankful to catch a hatchery fish.