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Date Posted: Saturday, September 24, 08:39:41pm
Author: AS
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 173.180.105.8
Subject: Yep.
In reply to: Lij 's message, "Ah... I have some pics of that too - are those Cohos?" on Saturday, September 24, 08:28:44pm

Hatchery coho, coming back to their man-made stream. I think the biggest one we've seen would be about 10 pounds, I know the more massive fish we see with trophy fishing could not possibly have made it this far. The water they are waiting in has come via pipeline from above smallish dams built for hydro/mill use. We walk this hatchery most nights with the dogs and it's the biggest run we've seen in a while.

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[> [> [> That's good to hear..... -- Lij, Saturday, September 24, 11:24:22pm (adsl-108-67-89-49.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/108.67.89.49)

I remember driving over to Gold RIver and seeing graffiti painted on the rocks of the lowered river (because it had been dammed?) that read "GOODBYE SALMON."

The runs I remember seeing are a Kokanee run in a small stream going into the lake north of Nelson, is that an arm of Kootenay Lake? I locked myself out of my car while there. Luckily a guy living on the lake was kind enough to give me a ride into Nelson to go to the Ford dealership there and get a key cut (had to call Oklahoma where I bought my car to get the key number).

Then there were some really large sockeye on the upper Skeena above Hazelton. I think it was at a hatchery at Kispiox. I remember a really big rectangular concrete structure that created a number of channels going back and forth along its length so it created hundreds of feet of spawning grounds in the width of the structure. Some of those sockeye were huge too.

I ran into Coho at a small stream north of Kitwanga at another small Native village. The stream was muddier than most and I read later that Coho will spawn in muddier streams than other salmon. Which explains why some were transplanted to streams in Michigan.

The last I ran into was a really shallow stream that was a tributary of the Nass further up the Dease Lake Highway north of Kitwanga (Cranberry Jct?). But there were some big Sockeye there. Looking at the Nass those fish really had a tough go to get there.

Oh,... one more on Fish Creek north of Hyder, Alaska, I ran into a black bear there catching some really big chum salmon. A guy at a shop in Hyder told me they filmed a fishing show at Hyder the week before I got there and they were catching 100+ pound chum salmon in the lower river just up from the ocean channel.


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[> [> [> [> That's huge! -- AS, Sunday, September 25, 01:21:30am (NoHost/173.180.105.8)

The last big salmon we saw was at a derby last month. The marina/ rv park we stayed at which was west of Victoria was the measurement site and there were some 45+ pound salmon coming in....I thought THAT was a lot of fish!!

Don was back at the hatchery this afternoon for a geo cache search. He tells me the fish are three deep now in some parts of the creek, we're curious to see when the predators will start showing up for their autumnal gorge....


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[> [> [> [> [> Well, it was 1986. -- Lij, Sunday, September 25, 02:56:02am (adsl-99-31-15-247.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.31.15.247)

I was surprised to hear chum (dog) salmon grew that large. I only figured King salmon did. But I was told the chum salmon at Hyder were a special race of the species. Or at least that is how I remember it.


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