Chas Wade wrote:

The most important thing I learned in college was that everybody's an
asshole. The hard part was realizing that everybody includes me. If
you'd straightened me out about the Oak Springs hatchery and worded
your comment a little differently I probably wouldn't have been
compelled to point out that you too are part of "everybody".

True. Part of my problem is that I tend to look into ROFF on my work
computer at the end of the workday, and by that time I'm usually ****ed
off about some damn thing or other. That, together with my
long-simmering annoyance over the current management of what could be
a good thing (the ODFW hatchery program), made me all too predisposed
to be ornery for no good reason, I guess.

But then, I figure if everybody worded their comments a little
differently, ROFF would be, if not entirely suffused with sweetness and
light, certainly a lot less lively.

ODFW does do a good job, I think, with the Deschutes hatchery summer
steelhead. The fish are bred at the Round Butte hatchery (which is run
by ODFW but owned by Portland General Electric Co), with brood
stock taken from the Pelton dam fish ladder. It's good to hear that
they find new fresh brood stock each year. I think that didn't used
to be the case. It's an interesting operation, but unlike Oak Springs
you can't just drop in to visit; you need to phone ahead to make
arrangements.

Tight lines,

JR