Release into Swan Lake ( note the Trout)
Transfer into buckets for the walk to the lake.
Catching the fish.
Over the past couple of weeks we have begun our fry salvage due to the very hot weather and Bonnel Creek drying out early this year. So far we have moved 3200 Wild Coho fry with Sticklebacks and Trouts. Our fish fence is only getting one or two the past couple of weeks so this Saturday we are going to pull it, so far we have had around 450 smolts and a few trout through until the weather got too hot for the fish to move and the Beaver has been maintaining the dam at a higher level. With this rain (Yes Rain) they may begin to move again so once we remove the fence they can go downstream and hopefully make the Ocean before it gets too hot and dry again. We will be ongoing with the fry salvage until all the pools have dried up though hopefully with the rain we will get some more flow on the surface to give some relief for the fish. We are looking at a couple of opportunities to do some habitat work this summer on Bonnel, hopefully with help from Ducks Unlimited and fisheries. DU are concerned about a log jam which is increasing in size and they feel it may jump the bank and scour out their pond in the estuary. So while the machine is their we hope to get some scour structures built to help maintain some deeper pool habitat. At this site we used to have a large deep pool which now is full of gravel with the subsequent loss of fish habitat.
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