Dead fish everywhere. :(

[Chinook SSSF]

Hey you know I can tell you I have seen some stuff happen down there over the years....Way crazier stuff than like EC....See people netting fish in troths they make, see them chasing the fish through the creek and then tackling them, commming back for second later in the day...anything, you can think of. I have a pic around here somewhere of guy poking his rod under one of the rocks near the hatchery, with the hook at the tip guide. Poison would not surprise me ANY...tbh...

[Bassfight]

Are these all hatchery fish?

[JoshH]

Matthew, sounds like some sort of rodeo you're describing. Crazy.
Bassfight, the big dead salmon I saw had their fins clipped but I didn't think of looking at the trout sized shakers. The steelhead and the fingerling trout were not from the hatchery as far as I know, or the scores of little belly-up sculpins of course.
I called to try to get an update but the officer I spoke with was not on duty.

[WILLIS]

Sounds alot like ec, last year i called on folks netting fish out of the log jams, and i have seen alot of the hooks reeled up to the eye and log jam fishing sometimes with steel hali leaders. one year a guy with a spear was doing well in the rapids....i did not bother him....i turn a blind eye to alot but the netting is where i drew the line, i wory about myself.

[Spade]

I'm all about just accepting that EC is what it is. When this "insanity" is going in, the river is full of 99% hatchery Coho. I might call in something a bit crazy like a guy with a net or spear but, I just don't care what tactics people choose to use on hatchery fish that are going to be wasted. I pay for the fish with my tax dollars and so someone better be able to eat the damn things. I'll fish my way and they'll fish theirs.

Thanks for trying to keep us up to date Josh.

[Chinook SSSF]

Gabe! How refreshing! TY! lol.... (*_*) That is exactly how I feel about the rodeo hehe

[ryank]

I'm all about just accepting that EC is what it is. When this "insanity" is going in, the river is full of 99% hatchery Coho. I might call in something a bit crazy like a guy with a net or spear but, I just don't care what tactics people choose to use on hatchery fish that are going to be wasted. I pay for the fish with my tax dollars and so someone better be able to eat the damn things. I'll fish my way and they'll fish theres.

Thanks for trying to keep us up to date Josh.

Well said! I totally agree.

[JoshH]

Thanks guys for your comments. I appreciate the different perspectives.

[Spade]

I had a talk with an ODFW officer (Robert) yesterday at the Hillsboro Dicks after his presentation with Jack and Brandon Glass was over. He's works the North Coast area and told me he hadn't heard anything about the Big Creek incident and was surprised he hadn't so he's going to check up on it and get back to me. So now we can try and find out from two fronts.

[Chinook SSSF]

That would be assuming anyone but us even cared, or asked..By now the evidence is certainly washed away. I am with you though that I would love to know what happened. Thanks Gabe