Introduce salmon to the North Fork Yuba

[cmcdhuibh]

I was driving up 49, goofing off, and stopped in at a few day use and camp areas at and above Indian Creek on the North Fork Yuba.

There are signs about some traps for smolt salmon.

There is a plan to make a new/better salmon byway loop on the Lower Yuba. My question is how they plan on getting them past Englebright dam, up and back down.

[MThompson]

Perhaps they were for Kokanee smolts?

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Yes, the very deep Bullards Bar Reservoir has a "trillion" Kokanee in it.








I have this idea that before all the dams in California, there were summer Steelhead who went far up the rivers in the high water of

Spring and were up in those very deep "bottomless" holes, that now have some giant Brown trout in them?


From old timers who fished Nor Cal before the dams I was told about salmon being up in the trout streams like the Upper Sac.

[cmcdhuibh]

Perhaps they were for Kokanee smolts?

Nope the sign said chinook salmon.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I think the CDFW is always working on something.

[John Sv]

I thought they were trucking the. Around Englebright and NBB.

[Fishtopher]

CDFW and several other agencies are re-introducing spring-run Chinook into the upper Yuba and possibly the Feather. They will have smolt traps at the inlets of the reservoirs to capture outmigrating Chinook which will be trucked down to the lower river. A similar project is occurring on the McCloud and Upper Battle Creek to re-introduce winter-run Chinook back into the watersheds. The purpose of these projects isn't so much restoring the runs but preserving the genetic integrity of the populations.