ID salmon

[Blitzfish]

Looking better everyday! Can't wait to wet a line! 17,045 over Bonneville yesterday. 332 pit tagged fish for Rapid River over Bonneville so far, that translates into 16,600 Rapid River fish over bonneville to date, which is better than the early timing run prediction. Clearwater basin has 444 pit tagged fish over bonneville which translates into 15,096 clearwater fish over bonneville to date, also ahead of the early timing run prediction. This is based on an email Joe Dupont sent out on the 23rd and the number of PIT Tagged fish over by that date which translated into about 1 PIT Tagged fish for Rapid River equals ~50 fish and Clearwater Basin was about 1 to ~34 ratio. I have attached the prediction sheet in the the attachments below for all to see. On another note, I don't think the water is going to really get that high this year. For example Lolo Pass is at 42% of average with a snow water equivalent (you can think of this in terms of inches of rain, but it will not come off all at once) is at 9 inches. It lost an inch of that yesterday. Snow packs are low and I think "high water" will be a short one this year and will never exceed the barriers we can see for both the clearwater by Orofino and the Salmon at Devil's Slide.


Bring on the salmon!!!
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