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Salmon Count Friday, December 1, 2006 |
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On Friday, December 1, a group of eight Granite
Bay Flycasters members, led by David Baker and Gregg Bates,
searched the local streams for salmon. The event was sponsored
by the Dry Creek Conservancy and there were a total of about
thirty volunteers participating.
This year REI awarded Dry Creek Conservancy a grant to improve our geographic positioning information for spawning. DCC purchased 13 Garmin GPS units to send out on the stream reaches. There was a one hour training on using the GPS units for our survey immediately before the survey from 8:00 to 9:00 AM. My two-person team included myself and Bill
Templin. We recorded six live salmon and Bill tagged six
carcasses ranging from 28" to 34". A count of twelve salmon was
okay, but two
years ago Bill recorded about 75 on the same stretch of Miner's
Ravine. We suspect that we were a week or two early for the big
run and it is highly likely that another count will be conducted
later this year. |
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