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Skagit Bull Trout Primer Ch 2: The Early Spawn
by: @Smalma


Photo by @Rvrfisher360

The Skagit bull trout spawning grounds typically define the upper basin limit reached by the various migrating salmonids. In one case the bull trout migrate more than 115 miles from tide water while climbing more than 3,000 feet in elevation to their spawning grounds. As one can imagine, to reach those areas in the Cascade mountains the bull trout likely encounter a variety of potential obstacles, log jams. Long stretches of steep gradients, velocity barriers, waterfalls, and even potentially dewatering of the stream channel. To consistently reach these spawning sites the trout have developed a variety of strategies to deal with potential obstacles....
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Chapter 2 in @Smalma's awesome series about Bull Trout in the Skagit river basin has been published! This is an updated and expanded version of a short article he wrote for some other website a decade ago. It's full of the history and science and status of one of our coolest native fish species.

Thank you to Smalma and to everyone who uploaded photos to illustrate the article series.

 
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