$2M triangle to help migratory fish (and 3 more needed)

Pink Nighty said:
This was not unrelated to us breaking up.
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I'm envisioning the final bridge drive over prior to the break up

PN: "just gonna slow down a bit to peep this run"
EX: "seriously, just keep going please, I hate being on bridges"
PN: "but look, the water level just came up and it's in prime condition." Slows down truck to near stop. "See that little tint of green in the water? Money."
EX: "seriously? No I can't see, my eyes are closed. I hate bridges."
PN: "Yeah.....that's nice......oh! Look at that! The log that was jamming up the run has freed up and....oh, that looks SWEEEEEEET"
EX: "seriously? can we go please?"
***PN pulls over and puts truck in park. Gets out to scope out run better.
EX: "Why are we stopping?"
PN: "Be right back, wanna see this run real quick"
EX: "SERIOUSLY?"
PN: "YES. SERIOUSLY. IT LOOKS SERIOUSLY AWESOME."
**PN Closes truck door and walks to the edge of the bridge to scope the run.
**PN Gets back in truck after scoping the run for a couple minutes, nonchalantly asks while buckling up, "Hey....We don't have plans today do we? That run is calling my name"
EX: "We need to talk..."
 
Long_Rod_Silvers said:
I'm envisioning the final bridge drive over prior to the break up

PN: "just gonna slow down a bit to peep this run"
EX: "seriously, just keep going please, I hate being on bridges"
PN: "but look, the water level just came up and it's in prime condition." Slows down truck to near stop. "See that little tint of green in the water? Money."
EX: "seriously? No I can't see, my eyes are closed. I hate bridges."
PN: "Yeah.....that's nice......oh! Look at that! The log that was jamming up the run has freed up and....oh, that looks SWEEEEEEET"
EX: "seriously? can we go please?"
***PN pulls over and puts truck in park. Gets out to scope out run better.
EX: "Why are we stopping?"
PN: "Be right back, wanna see this run real quick"
EX: "SERIOUSLY?"
PN: "YES. SERIOUSLY. IT LOOKS SERIOUSLY AWESOME."
**PN Closes truck door and walks to the edge of the bridge to scope the run.
**PN Gets back in truck after scoping the run for a couple minutes, nonchalantly asks while buckling up, "Hey....We don't have plans today do we? That run is calling my name"
EX: "We need to talk..."
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Were you there?????? I mean it was deception pass but damn
 
I read the article. Pretty interesting.
Some of the steelhead being monitored in this study come from Big Beef Creek.
I live in Seabeck so pass over a causeway on the Big Beef Creek estuary on the Seabeck Highway every time I drive into Silverdale or Bremerton. I knew there was a fish monitoring station back in the estuary but have never gone back to see it. I think I will...
I've read that 30 years ago Big Beef Creek was open for recreational steelhead fishing but was subsequently closed and has remained closed. Big Beef Creek has a run of fall coho. I've seen them jumping in the estuary. The estuary and the Hood Canal waters along the causeway are closed to recreational fishing when the coho return. The Big Beef Creek coho run is targeted every year by gill netters. A gill net is is run from shore to around 100 yards out into the Canal about a 1/4 mile down the Canal from the Big Beef Creek bridge on the causeway. I have not seen them gill netting that run for the last 2 years. Makes me wonder if the gill netting destroyed the coho run and it is no longer worth the time to commercially fish it? Or maybe they are giving it a rest because of poor return numbers reported at the monitoring station? I don't know but I do know that I have not seen any coho jumping in the estuary for several years.
 
It was my understanding the UW had a monitoring station on Big Beef and it was at one time considered an indicator stream for wild canal coho. I don’t know if that is still the case.
I was lucky enough to have many conversations with my best friends dad who fished the creek from steelhead and other species back in the 30’s and 40’s. He’s since past but I would have given my left one to experience what he did while fishing there. Incredible stories and he wasn’t one to bullshit having fished in many places around the world during his career in the Air Force.
I think a lot of very nice wild coho on the canal fall victim to the intense netting pressure on fall chums.
SF
 
Stonedfish said:
It was my understanding the UW had a monitoring station on Big Beef and it was at one time considered an indicator stream for wild canal coho. I don’t know if that is still the case.
I was lucky enough to have many conversations with my best friends dad who fished the creek from steelhead and other species back in the 30’s and 40’s. He’s since past but I would have given my left one to experience what he did while fishing there. Incredible stories and he wasn’t one to bullshit having fished in many places around the world during his career in the Air Force.
I think a lot of very nice wild coho on the canal fall victim to the intense netting pressure on fall chums.
SF
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There were some cabins associated with the UW monitoring station next to the road by the bridge that were torn down 2-3 years ago.
It would have been amazing to see and fish Big Beef in that era like your friend's dad did. The Big Beef upper watershed old growth forest was logged off in the 1930's. There was a railroad line from Camp Union in the upper watershed to the mouth of Seabeck Creek. They would dump the logs in the water at Seabeck, boom them up and then tow them to the Port Gamble Mill. We live about a 1/2 mile from the water. In old legal documents for our 13 household subdivision there were originally "booming rights". One could move logs from our properties down through other properties to the Canal, boom them up, and then on to the lumber mills. The old growth forest, streams and fish in our area would have been a wonder to see...
I agree with you regarding the negative impact of chum netting on the Canal wild stock coho.
 
Grandpa Jim said:
There were some cabins associated with the UW monitoring station next to the road by the bridge that were torn down 2-3 years ago.
It would have been amazing to see and fish Big Beef in that era like your friend's dad did. The Big Beef upper watershed old growth forest was logged off in the 1930's. There was a railroad line from Camp Union in the upper watershed to the mouth of Seabeck Creek. They would dump the logs in the water at Seabeck, boom them up and then tow them to the Port Gamble Mill. We live about a 1/2 mile from the water. In old legal documents for our 13 household subdivision there were originally "booming rights". One could move logs from our properties down through other properties to the Canal, boom them up, and then on to the lumber mills. The old growth forest, streams and fish in our area would have been a wonder to see...
I agree with you regarding the negative impact of chum netting on the Canal wild stock coho.
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I also wonder on the canal how many of the best of the best, jumbo searuns get taken out in the chum fishery. I know they use pretty large mesh size, but I’m pretty sure some still die in the process based on a picture a friend sent me years ago of dead searuns taken during netting activity in the south sound.
SF
 
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