About the sedement on the Klamath River restoration.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0-67x__IU

The Big Picture here is that the river will be pretty wild again.

[robdog]

I wonder how much increase will be the Steelhead population in this area. I would expect Steelhead to blossom after watching that video. Thanks for for sharing Bill.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Sadly, at 79 and in Florida now I will never fish the Klamath River again.



I did start fly fishing the Klamath in the 1970s with local Legend, Joe Shirshac, who treated me like I was family.

Back then, the fishing or fishery was amazing. Everyone caught Steelhead and salmon.

There were more campgrounds then and many were full of old folks who had station wagons or pickups with travel trailers.


In my lifetime they dammed up almost every river in California and now they are starting to remove them.

Every time they remove a dam and do stream restoration, that river has a better future, no matter how long it takes.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Here is an exciting message from an old friend who is a veteran in fisheries in California:


"The removal of the four dams on the Klamath restores access to 400+ miles of stream habitat. I think much of that is actually tributary streams. Steelhead are tributary spawners and can do nursery rearing (as fry) in some surprisingly small creeks. So this dam removal may bode especially well for wild steelhead. So cross your fingers Bill!!!