FISH, FINALLY
Friday 2/6/2009
I went on the trap run with Bill ( his last day ) today. We used a pickup and left from the Pig N' Pancake. The weather was overcast and cool. We went to the Schooner trap first. No fish, no elk, low water and some gravel in the trap. No fish in ladder or below-dam pool. We left Schooner Creek and headed for the Siletz trap via Kernville. High tide and the river was bank full till Cedar Creek (tidewater). Logging still going on in the "gorge" so met some log trucks. The trees on the north side of the river at the Siletz trap have been cut down. ODF&W feared that some were leaning and if they fell it would damage the cables that cross the river. Big change and very open now. The trap actually had FISH in it, 3 steelhead:
2 wild males - winter steelhead
1 hatchery female
The wild fish were put back down the ladder. The logging operation is south of the river and half a mile below the trap.
The Palmer trap had no fish. There is a lot of silt in the trap and very little water is running through it. Bill pulled the boards at the diversion structure and created a little more flow but probably not enough to get fish into the trap. Got back into town at 1:30.
Wayde
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