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April 21, 2008
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Russian Slowly Dropping
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It's quite on the
Russian front but we are
getting some good
reports from the few
soldiers still on the
river. A Hotsheet
subscriber, Petaluma
based nursery owner and
occasional abalone dive
partner Bruce Snieder
drifted the middle
section of the Russian
on Saturday 3-15.
Tossing a gold Cleo from
his kayak Bruce hooked 8
and landed four fish
all natives including two chromers
running from 7 to 12
pounds. On his 8 mile
drift he only saw a
couple of other anglers
and literally had the
river to himself. Bruce only asked
that we not give up his
exact drift but I will
say think middle and
think high. Fishing
pressure has been very
light but there are
still fresh fish pushing
in. Get back out there
and catch some chrome
fish as there will be
few opportunities to do
that this year with the
closure of the ocean
salmon season.
The Russian is still giving up a few bright fish in the middle river as the
last of the adults push up into the system. I had a good friend Skip who said
he hooked and lost one at Dry Creek on Friday 3-7 and he saw a few other fish
hooked and landed just below the mouth of Dry Creek. Pressure is light and
should
remain so on weekdays and expect a larger influx of anglers on the weekends.
I spent the day at the Warm Springs federal hatchery helping the kids from the
United Anglers of Casa Grande spawn steelhead on Thursday 3-6. I had three
young adults from the program
including my son Jake along with friends Rachel, and Haley. They all wrestled
about a dozen fish apiece assisting in collecting eggs and milt, mixing the
results and helping the fish to recuperate before being released. It's not as
easy as it sounds and its a very fast pace operation that you have to keep up with. I had
the easy job, collecting a small DNA sample my clipping the tip of a tail on
each fish that was handled. I was impressed not only with the kids enthusiasm
but the skill of the hatchery workers.
They are also raising over 100,000 coho that are to be released into tributaries
of the Russian. This is a huge and very scientific program where the brood
stocks are carefully separated by lineage. They have close to 100 separate
parental stocks in the hatchery and each individual fish is not only counted but
they have the DNA of the parents and they will all be individually wired coded.
They are hoping that by tracking individual fish and DNA they can distinguish
which runs are most
successful and then
breed along those lines in the future. The biologist in charge says that he
expects that they could have a viable run and even possibly a fishery in about
15 years.
On the way home we
stopped by Dry Creek to
check and see if
anything was going on.
There wee just three
other trucks in the
parking lot and other
than seeing one fish
roll at the mouth of Dry
Creek there wasn't much
to observe. The creek
was running clear and
the river was in perfect
shape with about 20" of
viz.
River Levels:

For river status (low flow closure) updates from Fish and Game please call +1.707.442.4502 for the North coast and +1.707.944.5533 for Central coast streams. Be sure to check out the
California Fish and Game regulations before you go. Regulations vary on every river and you need to pay attention to bait and hook restrictions. Due to winter closures on HWYs 5, 101 & 299 we recommend you check Caltrans road conditions
as well.
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