#1010645 - 06/19/19 10:22 AM
YES PLEASE!!!
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Possibilities would be unreal if migration past all the toothy warm water fishies was possible. I always imagine what it used to be like when huge inland summer-run steelhead used to migrate that high. What did they look like and how big did they get? Imagine the stocks lost when the dams went in. Camping over there and looking at the scenery across the water always makes me day dream. https://www.opb.org/news/article/columbi...pFHmsg.facebook[/url]
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#1010646 - 06/19/19 10:26 AM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
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#1010656 - 06/19/19 11:09 AM
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River Nutrients
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Talked with a CR Gillnetters who, while fishing in the River for springers, had 20 steelhead that weighed over 400 pounds.
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#1010669 - 06/19/19 01:51 PM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
[Re: cobble cruiser]
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Lord of the Chums
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i though one of the 35s came from the Snake in the 70s, then like 20 years ago one at 35 was caught on the Quinault...
the world record is still from David White at 42 right? think that was Alaska tho...
Nick English got that 37 on the Kispiox a decade or so ago as well....
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#1010674 - 06/19/19 02:29 PM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
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My Waders are Moist
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If only I could explain the size I have witnesses swimming by under the raft from one of those rivers..... only a few would believe me.. the folks that were with me when I was gasping for a word and nothing coming out. Orygun 30?
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#1010705 - 06/19/19 09:38 PM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
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River Nutrients
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Bob Hooten has a picture of a brace of 40+ fish taken in a Skeena Gillnet in his book on Skeena steelhead.
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#1010767 - 06/21/19 07:16 AM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
[Re: cobble cruiser]
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River Nutrients
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If you really want to restore the Big C, start at the bottom. Essentially, the lowermost dam goes first and you work your way upstream. Clean out the tributaries and keep working upstream. That way, the slackwater issues don't effect the restoration, except for temperature and some flow issues. Taking out the Snake dams just sends more food to the lower Columbia Smallmouth and Walleyes. Some more will get through, but it won't be the Silver Bullet.
I would prefer to get rid of all the below-Bonneville dams (on anadromous waters) and the take out Bonne and move up one pool at a time. Probably be the fastest way to get the sturgeon back, too.
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#1010812 - 06/21/19 12:53 PM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
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Ranger Danger
Registered: 02/08/07
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If only I could explain the size I have witnesses swimming by under the raft from one of those rivers..... only a few would believe me.. the folks that were with me when I was gasping for a word and nothing coming out. I remember that "alligator sighting" very well. It takes a pretty unique set of circumstances to render Danny speechless. Not an easy thing to do
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#1011030 - 06/26/19 11:41 AM
Re: YES PLEASE!!!
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Returning Adult
Registered: 08/21/13
Posts: 372
Loc: Tri-Cities, WA
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If you really want to restore the Big C, start at the bottom. Essentially, the lowermost dam goes first and you work your way upstream. Clean out the tributaries and keep working upstream. That way, the slackwater issues don't effect the restoration, except for temperature and some flow issues. Taking out the Snake dams just sends more food to the lower Columbia Smallmouth and Walleyes. Some more will get through, but it won't be the Silver Bullet.
I would prefer to get rid of all the below-Bonneville dams (on anadromous waters) and the take out Bonne and move up one pool at a time. Probably be the fastest way to get the sturgeon back, too. You're talking big money. Like, bigger than Hanford big. All the contaminants from smelting and Hanford are entombed behind those dams. It was described to me as "the removal of one dam below Hanford would amount to the single greatest environmental remediation project on the earth to date." Dams don't last forever, so it will have to be dealt with some day.
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