Catch & release steel?

NO-1 fish per day limit everywhere on all tribs.
No special areas for fly guys...why not spin fishing only?
 
WCW

No special regs too many now as it is.Catch and if desired to keep as long as within legal limits!!! Support 3cu and support increase in fees. if u got 14 bucks for each smoked steelhead u certainly got enough for an increase if liscense fees.

YES

no

6 per day so don't have to stay 'till midnight to rope 3 more. Make the trip "worth" it!!
Fish pooo not good for water.
 
bEAVER fEAVER!!
 
crappy

No.
 
Instead, take Conneaut, Elk, and Twenty Mile Creeks and impose a Delayed Harvest (DH) timeframe where it would be illegal to harvest or possess a steelhead from September 1st until December 1st.  On and after December 1st, DH regulations would cease and normal limits would apply.  So catch & release in the early season to give the fish a chance to work up the creeks and to give the C&R anglers plenty of opportunities.  Fly, spin or pin - all are welcome.
 
Anglers looking to harvest can hit any of the other tribs throughout the entire season, or wait until 12/1 to harvest on these special DH streams.

             
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Fish numbers aren't the problem.
Access is.
 
Deem Elk navigable (there's a boat launch on it) open up another 10-12 miles of stream.

H3Fisher
1-Fish limit from August 1st to November 1st then 2-fish till trout opener.
 
1 steelie = has much meat as 5 stocked trout. 
 
Posted property becomes catch release only with a $15 tag required to support tax cuts to the land owners for doing this. No need for new parking areas let us walk and use those funds for something that truly does benefit the "world class" no-fisherie. Better monitoring of high trash areas to bust the pigs and if caught revoking their fishing rights for the year. 
 
 
 

would definitely support a 1 or 2 fish limit but that will be the day I spend $15 for a slimer tag so the people who live on these creeks can get a tax break.  ever see the homes they live in located on these creeks?  Increase my spending for somebody elses tax cuts?  I don't think so!  Am I going to get a tax break to unpost my land to allow any and all deer hunters, slobs or otherwise, have access to my property?  They can keep their tax break; there's a reason why people post, and it's due to a handful of pigs that ruin it for everybody, whether you're hunting or fishing.

NO.
One steel, one brown per day would be good.
Gotta throw something in there for the oddball salmon that shows up everyonce in a while.
but three is too many in my opinion.
 

I wouldn't have any issue with a C&R section, although not sure if below Rt. 5 would fly.  These areas are jammed packed, and telling these folks to go elsewhere is just asking for trespassing and crowding out the lesser crowded areas.
 
Like said, it is a put & take fishery.  Also agree that most aren't doing much with survival on poor C&R.  I rarely see guys keeping more than 1-2 fish.  Then again, I usually shy away from lower Elk or Walnut when in prime season.  Whether it is guys that want to keep 3, can't catch 3 or what seems to be the split on this site of either C&R only or taking 1-2 home for the smoker/table.  I have nothing against anyone keeping 3 fish if they are going to be consumed.  Not everyone is 1-2 hours or less from the lake.  If guys with 3-4+ hour drives that can only make a trip or two per year take home 3-6 fish and consume them, more power to them.  Obviously a little different if it is a guy that fishes much more often and keeps 30-50+ fish per year.  I don't see that being the norm though.  I also don't see why they'd change a law to stop what is the minority of anglers that truly abuse the limits.  

and FYI, In-Fisherman magazine ran an article 1 or 2 issues back about a study done in Germany on C&R northern pike and how this practice affected their growth rates, feeding, reproduction (moot point for steelhead), etc.  I always suspected this was not a victim-less practice.  C&R may be great for the fishermen, but not so much for the fish.  They are after all a living organism and not playthings simply there for our amusement. 

One fish per. day is plenty

You got it Bings !    Just some food for thought does anybody know what the stats are for fish returning the following year if they are released ? I think the natural mortality rate is much greater than most people think. I keep very few fish but I don't have a problem with a 3 limit if they are going to die anyway in the near future.