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Thread: California's Butte Creek Spring Run salmon survey

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    That’s a healthy watershed! I’m surprised the pot growers up above haven’t effected it so bad.

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    Not sure how it is now after the Camp Fire.
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    Not Butte Creek but another CV tributary that is having a record run of springers this year. Ran into several other pools like this one over the weekend.
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    That’s rad, such a great photo! Deer creek?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fishtopher View Post
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    Not Butte Creek but another CV tributary that is having a record run of springers this year. Ran into several other pools like this one over the weekend.
    That makes me feel so good......................
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    That is amazing with all the bad salmon news and bad water news out there. Especially for the spring chinook which seems almost extinct in California. I am not sure if they cranked up hatchery production or if there were really good ocean conditions or what. I am going springer fishing in a couple of weeks in Washington. In my experience they are a very difficult fish to catch. Great photo. Thanks.

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    They have Springers on the Rogue and Klamath rivers and they are hard to catch on anything but good bait.

    According to Matt Johnson of the CDF&W, Butte Creek is the best tributary of the Sacramento river for Spring King salmon. It comes in right above the mouth of the Feather river.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Kranhold View Post
    That’s rad, such a great photo! Deer creek?
    Not Deer Creek. The spring run on this creek is typically <250 fish. Last surveys had around 1100 already. Lots of restoration going on in this creek so hopefully this becomes the new norm.

    Butte Creek gets springer runs in the 10-20k range regularly and is by far the healthiest spring run population in the state.
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fishtopher View Post
    Not Deer Creek. The spring run on this creek is typically <250 fish. Last surveys had around 1100 already. Lots of restoration going on in this creek so hopefully this becomes the new norm.

    Butte Creek gets springer runs in the 10-20k range regularly and is by far the healthiest spring run population in the state.
    Wow that’s Awesome, thanks for the stats! I hope the thrive, we need more fish and healthier watersheds!

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