What has happened to the American River Steelhead population?
Drifted from Sailor Bar to Sunrise. Encountered two sets of DFG fish/redd counters along the way. By takeout, they hadn't spotted a single redd, or at least a fresh one. I asked about the return this year. The hatchery spawned exactly fifty, that's 5-0 pairs. Not arguing right or wrong, good or bad, but I can't understand how this state can have an entire system devoted and specifically funded to the raising of a population of a certain species of fish, which comes from a portion of licensing we pay to fish for them, raising thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, and get a return of 50 pairs. If that isn't characterized as a colossal failure, I don't know the definition of failure. I didn't ask about the salmon return, I imagine similar results. Where do we go from here... besides home?
fly: Very light artificial fly fishing lure of which there are two types: the dry fly which isn't supposed to sink the way it just did; and the wet fly, which shouldn't be floating up on the surface like that. An Angler's Dictionary.
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