01/23/10

SILETZ FISH TRAP RUN:

Wayde & Lee accompanied Bill Sigler on the Friday trap run.

We left Newport shortly after 8 and headed for the Palmer trap arriving at 9:02. A nice herd of elk were on the north side of the highway just west of Logsden. There were no fish in the Palmer trap. The local beaver had been busy piling woody debris on the front of the trap. We cleaned that off and headed for the Siletz Falls trap at 9:25. The water at Palmer was 43.

The Siletz trap had 5 Steelhead in it: 2 male hatchery, 2 female hatchery and 1 wild summer male. He was a bit late getting upriver and may have trouble finding a mate. We removed a lot of gravel and silt from the trap. There is still more to do but it helped. The water was 42. We left at 11:16 and headed for Bohannon.

The Bohannon trap had 1 wild female steelhead and 1 14" cutthroat. We put them both upstream. The water was 42 and very clear.

Got back into town at 2:30.

Wayde