Sea run cutt's/Salmon Hatcheries and habitat doing some good.

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Sea run cutt's/Salmon Hatcheries and habitat doing some good.

Post by Derrick-k » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:07 pm

I found a small creek on vashon island with little water, probably about a fathom wide in the summer. I found this while trying to fish for salmon but after a long day I went over to a small creek in to just look at it for spawning salmon, my friend who lives on the island said that a fair amount of salmon move up the creek. While I was looking in the creek I thought I would try some fly fishing and ended up hooking 5 nice trout and catching many, many baby sea run cutthroat. A river that used to be low on run's has finaly come back with more of the endagered salmon and sea run cutthroat, thanks to some people from the vashon parks department, lol they probably would have been pissed if they knew I was fishing it. I am sure that there are some nice sea run cutthroat in there when the season is right.

A small creek now revived!
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RE:Sea run cutt's/Salmon Hatcheries and habitat doing some good.

Post by A9 » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:40 pm

Nice. I love catching the sea run cutts....

Got dang close to the state record for them fishing out in the salt....
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RE:Sea run cutt's/Salmon Hatcheries and habitat doing some good.

Post by jmpurser » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:05 am

Nice!

Good to hear about some progress being made. Thanks Derrick.
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RE:Sea run cutt's/Salmon Hatcheries and habitat doing some good.

Post by cavdad45 » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:52 am

Yeah, I sure miss fishing for searun cutthroat. My favorite trout to chase.

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Post by Derrick-k » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:09 am

Sam Kafelafish wrote:Nice. I love catching the sea run cutts....

Got dang close to the state record for them fishing out in the salt....
Oh realy, my dad used to get some trolling in gig harbor.

And willapa bay used to have some nice cuttt's to.

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Post by Smalma » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:14 pm

Derrick -
Great to hear about the cutts!

However sea-run cutthroat have not been planted in Puget Sound streams for years. Those cutts are without a doubt from natural reproduction and exist in spite of not because of hatchery programs.

What it does illustrate is how dependent those fish are on small streams with good quality habitat.

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