The last rainfall (Tue) gave us a record (I hope) amount of smolts in the box (1923) and virtually no chum fry (mind you the smolts had nice fat bellies soooo). There were quite a few cutthroat and even some rainbow trout come through as well. We also had a bit of a mystery fish, [...]
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Brace yourselves for this week’s update, so far this year we have had a grand total of: Well, we were back up with a vengeance on Saturday, 9 May, with almost 26,000 chum fry in the boxes. We were rather hoping that the surge that broke the fence would have washed most of the fry out of the system but they seem to be well-trained and decided to wait for us to [...] Mother Nature flexed her muscles last night and shut us down for the moment. The rain, plus the debris being brought down from the trees, increased the volume enough that the water was pouring over the top of the fence this morning and broke the point of the water/fish funnel away from the walls. It [...] As records go, they are falling fast and furious this week. I thought 8,000+ was a lot of fish. That is now a slow morning as we hit 10,000+ Sat and then 14,000+ chum fry plus a few others on Sun morning. If anyone was wondering what that many fish look like, see the photo [...] Our first week started out fairly slowly as usual which is good since we need to knock the rust off our recognition skills and teach the new people what the various species look like without totally overwhelming them. There was also the excitement of seeing some really nice trout, a couple of which were around [...] |
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