10/05/07

All. I went with Roger last Friday to the Siletz trap. Hardly any traffic on
the way up. I knew I was in deep doo doo when we opened the trap door and
when Roger looked in he exclaimed "oh crap". There were so many fish that we
didn't know where to start so we just dug in. By the time we separated them
there were only about 5 Chinook which we passed up stream along with about 6
native steelhead. That left us to process approximately 103 fin clipped
steelhead. We left 10 in the trap and dispatched the rest. Only about 5 were
under 10 lbs with the rest being in the 11 to 16 lb range. After zonking
them we loaded them in the truck and took some up to the gravel beds and
threw them in the water. After that Roger had to do a survey on spawning
beds off of 120 which took about an hour, maybe less. We couldn't get radio
reception and my cell phone was out of range so we took the remaining zonked
fish to the Siletz food bank in hopes of someone being there to accept the
56 fish left in the tank. Luckily there were people there so we didn't have
to go back to the gravel beds to dump them. All in all it was a very long
and tiring day. My shoulders were sore from netting all of those fish. I got
home around 5. TCM GO DUCKS
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