The Last Trap Run of the decade was finished today at 1:30 Thursday when Bill Platte and Wayde returned to "the Pig House" after visiting 3 traps in the rain.
We left at 8 am and proceeded to the Siletz trap. It rained hard and steady all the way. We arrived at the trap at 9:30 and traveled across the river. Water was about 4' below the top and rising. There were no fish in the and it was clean. The water temperature was 42.
We went down the gorge to the Palmer trap. It too held no fish but was running a good stream so we may soon have some fish. Bill cleaned some beaver debris off the face of the trap and we left 10:45 headed for the
Bohanan trap. The water at Palmer was 37.
Reached Bohanan at 12:10 and found 5 Coho.
1 male and 4 females. 1 of the females was a return which meant she had gone back downstream over the falls and then back up the ladder. I think I saw a tiny Garmin gps on her right gill. The water temperature was 37. We left Bohanan for the last time this year and headed for Newport.
Wayde
No comments:
Post a Comment