Due to technical issues with our receiving equipment as well as a prolonged stretch of cold weather and high water, we took the month of December off from tracking our fish.
On 1/18, several intrepid trackers ran a jet sled through several miles of river (RM 18.6 to 25.5) , locating 12 of our fish. It’s a mystery as to where the other eight have run off to. It is definitely possible that the fish are in the study section, yet tucked away in side channels inaccessible to the larger boat.
Dasha, as seen above, makes us wonder what the winter range is for our fish. She spent several weeks within the same half-mile stretch, and then recently headed downstream a couple of miles. We will get a better idea of the movement of some of the other fish in the next week when we plan to float some of the areas outside the intial study section.