Yesterday while I was fishing I noticed a movement in my peripheral vision, when I looked down I saw a fish swimming about over my boot tops. I noticed white marks from the top of the head all along the back to the dorsal fin and on the tail similar to a spawned out "sore" salmon. This fish swam about 5 or 6 feet down stream turned and came back by me, that is when I noticed the red stripe on the side and the red gill plates, definetly a steelhead. I then noticed about 2 inches behind the dorsal fin a blue green plastic tag. I also noticed the adipose fin was gone so it was an obvious hatchery fish. My question is do the hatcheries tag the fish?
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