05-01-2009, 03:31 PM
Sometimes the fishing is decent on the SF Cw a week or 10 days earlier than Riggins.
Also I have a degree in fisheries from USU and I'm a total numbers cruncher, so I have some really extensive excell spreadsheets on these Idaho Chinook. I have tracked the dam passage at Bonneville, Ice Harbor, and Lower Granite in 1997, and 2000-current, and a whole bunch of other stuff including PIT tag passage, river mile data, travel rates, river flows, and a record of every salmon I have ever tagged in Idaho since 2000.
Just recently I came up with some kinda interesting figures. In all the years that I have tracked the dam passage, an average of 27.8 % (low of 15% and high of 41%) of the fish that cross Bonneville cross Lower Granite (
huh?[pirate]) Also right now, 27.6% of the PIT tagged fish that have crossed Bonneville are destined for the Rapid River Hatchery; which should project to close to 27.6% of the total Bonneville passage to date. Last year 71.7% of the Rapid River Hatchery PIT tagged fish that crossed Bonneville, made it over Lower Granite as well.
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Also I have a degree in fisheries from USU and I'm a total numbers cruncher, so I have some really extensive excell spreadsheets on these Idaho Chinook. I have tracked the dam passage at Bonneville, Ice Harbor, and Lower Granite in 1997, and 2000-current, and a whole bunch of other stuff including PIT tag passage, river mile data, travel rates, river flows, and a record of every salmon I have ever tagged in Idaho since 2000.
Just recently I came up with some kinda interesting figures. In all the years that I have tracked the dam passage, an average of 27.8 % (low of 15% and high of 41%) of the fish that cross Bonneville cross Lower Granite (
huh?[pirate]) Also right now, 27.6% of the PIT tagged fish that have crossed Bonneville are destined for the Rapid River Hatchery; which should project to close to 27.6% of the total Bonneville passage to date. Last year 71.7% of the Rapid River Hatchery PIT tagged fish that crossed Bonneville, made it over Lower Granite as well.[signature]