05/19/08 and 05/23/08

SILETZ FISH TRAP:

Monday, 5/19

Report from Casey Deckard - 34 fish in trap with the following breakdown:

Wild 9 bucks 6 hens......

Hatchery 10 bucks 9 hens

10 of these were summer steelhead so the fishing should begin to pick up.

Friday, 5/23

Wayde, Kevin and Josh Jesinghaus (student videographer) checked the trap. There were:

Wild 7 bucks 5 hens

Hatchery 3 bucks 5 hens

There were some fish with punch holes in the tail which meant they had been in the trap before and had been put back down the ladder. The transporter bucket is operable again and the wild fish were moved across the river to the truck using the bucket instead of the tubes, much easier. The fish were released into Sunshine Creek which is a tributary about 8 miles below the trap.Josh filmed the entire operation today and we only have one day of filming left to get all the raw footage

needed for our video. Editing will soon begin. It was a good trip for Josh to be on. He saw things all in one day that probably took me at least 5 trips before I had seen them. The canyon was extremely busy today with equipment, log trucks, fishermen and one jeep convoy. Saw one deer on the way out.

Wayde

05/21/08

SCHOONER CREEK FISH TRAP:

The summary for Longview Hills Fishermen's Club participation in the Schooner Creek trap from Nov.1, 2007 thru May 10, 2008:

38 Steelhead
220 man-hours
1917 miles traveled

Wayde Dudley, (stats guy)

05/09/08

SILETZ FISH TRAP:

Frank and Kevin checked the Siletz trap on Friday. Weather was great and the area was not very busy. There were a total of 9 steelhead in the trap. 4 new fish and 5 in the holding pens. They were a mix of wild and hatchery fish. 3 pair were taken as brood stock to the Alsea hatchery. The fish were transported across the river in the tubes because the transport system has not been signed off on yet by the ODF&W engineers. 17 fish were returned to the Siletz River from Alsea. Only game of note seen was one grouse.

05/03/08

SCHOONER CREEK FISH TRAP:

I went to Schooner Creek on Saturday instead of Friday this week due to my work schedule. Unfortunately there were no fish. It was a beautiful day in the afternoon. Saw the Elk bedded down in the field between the 1 and 2 mile marker on Schooner Creek Road. I haven't heard from James so I am copying him on this email to get an idea of a end date for the trap operation. Someone may already know but I don't at this point. Have a great day.

Mike

04/30/08

SILETZ FISH TRAP:

Kevin and I had a mission to get a hen and buck for the ODFW Aquatic and Angler program at Newport Middle School, then add some wild stock to the pens in the Siletz Trap. Its planned for Friday to move wild pairs to the Alsea Hatchery. The weather got better as we moved up to Palmer and we chased a coyote down 116 for awhile. At Palmer, we found 2 dark, but acceptable for show and tell, so we kept the best one, cleaned the trap and choke points in the lower ponds and moved on to the Siletz trap. We had one hatchery hen to match up to our buck from Palmer, but there were 7 wilds, including one truly fine looking hen in the 18-20 lb class, and one jack. We kept the one hatchery for school and penned up the rest up with others already in there for Friday pickup. We also looked over options for storing a rescue sling inside the trap in case someone needs to be extracted by the hoist. The river looked in great shape as we came down. I needed to shorten my day, so Kevin dropped me at Ilahee and move on to Bohannan.

Brian