An eventful week in tracking – we floated from Leaburg Dam (RM 40.0) all the way to Bellinger Landing (RM 19.0), in hopes of finding some of the missing trout.
Unfortunately, after this mission, we’re still missing eight fish! Are they up tributaries? Hidden in side channels? Upstream past RM 40.0?
There were several notable developments:
Stanley at RM 28.7, is very much alive, and residing in a nice tailout full of March Brown mayflies.
Waldo, after nearly six months of hanging within a couple hundred meters of his original release site, rocketed upstream from RM 20.4 to RM 24.9, in the course of six days. It appears that he journeyed under his own power, as he is in a deep run which suggests he’s still swimming.
Lloyd, our new addition, continues to move upstream – tagged on 3/15 at RM 19.0, he first moved to RM 19.3 last week, and is now all the way up to RM 21.0.
Chicago was located last week and seems to have gone missing this week. She is 22″ long so it’s unlikely that she fell victim to avian predation. Perhaps she had just tucked up under some brush or in a side channel.
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We’re starting our 2013 Mark/Recapture season soon – kickoff meeting April 30th, 6pm.