Friday January 8, 2010
Wayde, Bill Sigler and Emmy (student volunteer) made the Palmer, Siletz and Alsea Hatchery run today.
We left ODF&W parking lot and headed east via Toledo, Siletz, Logsden and Wildcat bridge to the Palmer trap. There were no fish in the trap but numerous fish were observed in the stream above the diversion weir. The resident beaver had stacked a little trash at the front of the trap which Bill cleaned out.
We went up the gorge to the Siletz trap. River was up good and lots of white water. The trap held 9 Steelhead.
Hatchery --- 3 males
Wild --- 5 females and 1 return female
We transported 5 wild females across the river and into the pickup with the new small tank then headed for the Alsea Hatchery to drop off the fish for brood stock. A discussion was held on whether to go back to Logsden or go up river to Valsetz and out to Hoskins. Bill was familiar with the roads so we went east. It was a nice change of pace and I saw some new country. We got back on Hwy 20 at the Kings Valley turn off. It was about the same time or even a little faster to reach the hatchery. We unloaded the fish into a circular tank. I showed Bill and Emmy the resident sturgeon as they had not seen them before. We left the hatchery and went down the Alsea River to Waldport and back to Newport. We got in at 3:00 pm. I did not get any water temperatures today because my laser thermometer had dead batteries.
Derek checked the Bohannon trap today.
Wayde
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