Eagle Creek summer fishing

If no summer run steelhead are released from Eagle creek hatcheries how are so many different fishermen hooking up on them all last summer in the creek? Logic says there shouldn't be that many "strays" from the Clacakmas river. There were supposedly so many steelhead in there at times last summer that there were numerous reports of accidental and intenional snagging on the creek.

All over this board were reports of great days by multiple fishermen on the Eagle Creek (clackamas system) for summer steelhead through out the whole summer last year (and the years before that too I'll bet)

Dave Johnson has just informed me that there are no summer hatchery steelhead released from Eagle creek. What the hell are all those silver bullets comming out of that creek in the summer time then??????????????? Can anyone be more specific about that fishery please?

[ 05-27-2002, 06:31 AM: Message edited by: friendly fisherman ]

[Chris Nordling]

Sorry FF, David is right. The creek has very, very few of both summer steelies, and spring chinook. You'd almost be better off targeting cutt throat trout in the local creeks. In last 4 years of "fall" fishing on the creek I've seen 1 summer , and 3 springers, all of which were caught during silver season.

But if it makes you feel better, I'll swing up and look into one of the upper ladders, and tell you what I see. Should be pretty easy, the water should be ankle deep and gin clear. I'll even check down low for ya, and if I find anything other than suckers or cutties, I'll post it here for ya

Chris

[Ramstrong]

FF,

I'd be interested in seeing all of these posts you mention. I don't recall seeing them. I know there were all kinds of posts regarding the coho.
I made a tounge in cheek comment last year about all the steelhead carcasses I saw last year before the season opened because I knew that nobody would intentionally catch Coho before the season opened. [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img] But I have yet to see a summer run actually upstream in the creek.
Maybe people were making reference to catching summer runs at bonnie lure. There's a drift there by the mouth of the creek that coughs up summer runs.

Thanx Ramstrong. Youre probably right.

[Catch 22]

Ixnay on the Onnie Lurebay!!! No fish in that stretch either. I don't think the summers even go up the Clack anymore!! :grin: I'd try the willamette. :grin:

[Steve]

I worked in the mid 80's taking eggs from Coho at Eagle Creek Hatchery with the Job Corps when I taught Forestry, we would kill 5 to 10 summer steelhead a day that came thru the pens, at first I would take them over to the creek and dump them back into the creek, but was informed that wasn't policy... since they weren't native...so the got knocked in the head and shipped off for fish food. Then the decision to eliminate the spring Chinook came because too many snaggings and no enforcement... the last of the Chinook are planted in the feild behind the hatchery..ever wonder why a hatchery needs a tractor with a heavy plow blade??? Most fish don't leave home.

VERY GRIM THAT STORY IS, BUT THANX STEVE.

[happybrew]

Very grim indeed.

happybrew

[Bryan]

[ 06-13-2003, 03:38 PM: Message edited by: Bryan ]

[jr]

are they cliped ? whose cliping them then?or are they clack retards :grin:

good question JR. I wonder that too.