They only put 20,000 winter steelhead smolt into the Big Elk, with probably 2-3 percent return.
And if you dont have a good feel for the timing of the run, you'll be disappointed like most, stopping to talk to everyone else on the side of the road hearing the "should have been here yesterday" story.
Fall chinook have been closed to fishing in there for the past few years, so thats out too. They put a ton of money into it, putting several hundred habitat tree's in it, hopefully that helps. It definitely had/has a poaching/ zippering problem.