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dnibbles

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Late push of coho
« on: December 23, 2005, 10:15:41 PM »
Well, it's still nowhere near the numbers of last year, but a push of coho has entered many valley streams in the last day or two with the rain. Streams that previously had only a handful of coho have seen a push of fresh fish move up onto the spawning grounds from downstream holding areas. 2 in particular I saw today that had only 1 or 2 a week ago showed a couple hundred. Keep in mind these are not fishing streams, but the actual spawning grounds. I'll post the link when it's up.
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Coho
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2005, 10:17:10 PM »
    Maybe some good news for some systems that are experiencing late or no coho runs. Was at one of the central valley hatches this morning and what a site. A few days ago they had pretty much given up on the coho run and behold this morning since that little bit of rain there must have been over a hundred arrivals of coho. There is still hope yet for some late coho fishing mixed in with some early steelies, lets hope, Merry Xmas.
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Re: Late push of coho
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2005, 10:32:07 PM »
That's indeed good news. Will head out once the water level stabilize.
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Re: Late push of coho
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2005, 08:19:21 AM »
Certainly some good news right before Christmas. :) From the summary provided by KEEPS:

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We won’t look back so fondly on our coho returns for this year. On December 9th, we accompanied a group of high school students to complete our annual inspection of Thornvale Creek, which normally supports 100 or more adult coho spawners. KEEPS uses this watercourse as an indicator of overall watershed coho spawning populations. This year we were disappointed to find zero, and the adjacent sections of Kanaka Creek were virtually devoid of coho. This is in sharp contrast to 2004, when we estimated a return of 200-250 to Thornvale. Since this scenario has occurred throughout the Georgia Basin this year, we suspect that poor ocean conditions are the culprit. The Bell-Irving Hatchery accordingly ceased all broodstock angling efforts due to conservation concerns for the low numbers of wild fish. We estimate that 500 or fewer coho adults returned to the Kanaka watershed this year.

Maybe we'll see some good news in their January summary.
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Re: Late push of coho
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2005, 10:22:22 AM »
any good news is allways welcome
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