Smolt Trapping with Cheri

Earlier this week we met Cheri at the WDFW fish weir on Snow Creek for a morning of delicious cupcakes and some smelt trapping. The crew was stoked to get in the water and play with some fish. Zach and Rick got in the water with the net to scare the fish into the holding tank. Once in the tank two people went in to pull out the smolt. We loaded them up in the pool to begin counting them. Zach, Colin and Rick were identifying the fish while I pushed the counter buttons. We seined twice and came away with about 1500 fish, which put the annual number over 30,000 out migrating coho! an impressive run!