Wayde and Bill Sigler made the trap run on this rainy & windy Friday. Went to Bohannon first via Ona Beach/North Beaver Creek Road. There were 6 native Steelhead in the trap. 2 male & 4 female. One of the females had a seal mark on her side. The water was 48 degrees. There were 4 elk below the road on the way out. They were between the 13 and 5 mile markers.
Arrived at the Palmer trap about 11:00 pm. There were no fish but the beaver had dammed up the water to about 4 1/2 feet. We cleaned the whole mess out and flushed it through the trap and on down stream. I would think the beaver would be getting very frustrated by now. The water was 45 degrees.
Hit the Siletz Falls trap at 12:40. Saw fish darting about as soon as we opened the access door. There were 13 Steelhead:
Native 3 male 2 female
Hatchery 3 male 5 female
There was one very large Steelhead that Bill estimated at 18#, I would have guessed higher. Big fish.
We transported the hatchery fish across the river and dropped them off at Lincoln County Food Share. The water was 44 degrees. We got back to the "Pig House" at 3:00 pm.
Wayde
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