GaryP1958
These big rises bum me out a little because you know lots of fish are moving up and getting into the trap before we get a shot at them.
They do not rerun fish from the traps in the siuslaw basin
I know they used to re-run the clipped fish, not sure if they still do or not though. Roger do you know?
They do release them back into the river after milking them. Not the actual river but the creek, i have seen them do it a few times. I was told they run them down the river (literally) from the creek but haven't seen that. Are those considered reruns? My friend has caught one already (they have a hole punched in their fin).
I know there will be fish eugene1, but more fish will be dark or rerun. Some freshies will be in there but not as prevelant. I like em CHROME!
Thanks, rog.
I thought they used to move clipped (and unspawned) fish from the trap and transport them miles downstream on the Siuslaw to let them run the gauntlet again? I guess I am mistaken or perhaps they do after the required numbers of fish are met for spawning purposes.
Best,
UHHHHHHH, What the hell is going on with the Siuslaw for Steel? A lot of rivers around the State are getting decent-to good returns. All I hear about the Slaw is dismal... Can anyone elaborate for me? I only fish the river occasionally for Nooks, as my territory is Alsea-North.
correct, they punch the gill plate and release in the creek below the trap but...
...spawning this year has moved down to the holding trap on Munsel Creek in Florence, we move the fish down to there and hold them for spawning when ready. the fish at Whitaker trap that we don't need are just milked out into the creek if they are ready and dropped into Whitaker creek below the trap, so I think they would be downrunners at that point...the fish spawned at Munsel each week are dropped into the creek where they can go into the Slaw by the Port launch and out to the ocean quick. cheers, roger
UHHHHHHH, What the hell is going on with the Siuslaw for Steel? A lot of rivers around the State are getting decent-to good returns. All I hear about the Slaw is dismal... Can anyone elaborate for me? I only fish the river occasionally for Nooks, as my territory is Alsea-North.
The smolts being reared at Letz creek have been lost to high water events the last couple years, that accounts for 15,000 smolts that didn't get released. I'm not sure where the rest went. But I do know that as few as 46,000 smolts have been released in the siuslaw basin on the last few years...that's half of the already low 100,000. When you consider the slaw has the second highest population density in the state hitting it....
that is why the change this year, we are fertilizing 200K+ eggs, splitting them as they are fertilized into 2 batches and racking half at our Florence STEP hatchery, sending 100K+ to the Alsea hatchery, and this approach means, with separate but identical 2 batches of 100K+ fry, that we are almost certain of planting the full 100K allowed under CMP. and the extra smolt, well lets hope they get planted into a variety of lakes to grow into big rainbows...next step, I hope, is a 'biter' broodstock program like is being run on other coastal rivers...