Wayde & Bill Sigler made the Siletz Falls trap run on Wednesday. We left town at 8:10 and got to Buck Creek (mile post 5 1/2) at 9:10. Bill had to survey Buck Creek from the Siletz river to the gorge road. It took him just over an hour and he beat his previous best of 9 redds with a total of 14 active redds. Promising sign for Steelhead. The water in both streams was 43 degrees.
Reached the Siletz Falls trap at 10:42. The trap had about 24 fish in it. We left most of the hatchery fish in the trap and took 2 wild females, 1 wild male and 3 pair of hatchery fish to the Alsea hatchery. We went through Valsetz which is always a nice change of pace.
The 3 wild fish were spawned at the hatchery and put back in our tank to return to the Siletz River at the Hee Hee Il-a-Hee boat ramp (in town). We got back to the "Pig House" at 3:01. Did not see any wildlife of note.
Wayde
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