Cheri Scalf (WDFW) who is very much loved by our crew, let the crew come help for a morning of monitoring. She and Fred Bailey (Super volunteer) are nice enough to teach the crew each year how this process works and let us take part for a day. It is always a crew favorite. Plus we get Cheri's cookies.
1st Dylan and Robbie seined the pond in front of the fish weir.
The smolts in this ponded area of the creek were seined into a box like trap that is part of the weir.
Then we sent Elijah and Dylan into the trap and handed down the nets.
Then their job was to net the smolts and pass them up to us.
Kori, Rick and Robbie were waiting up top to transfer the smolts to a holding tank.
As we got fish into the tank then they need identified and sized.
The crew would net them and shout numbers and size out.
The smolts would then be transferred to a 5 gallon bucket then returned to the creek.
Cheri would then send the fish down a big pipe back into the creek downstream of the trap. It is a very fun event for us each year. If you'd like to try it some time, comment and this post and we'll link you up with Cheri.
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