Condit Dam Blown today.

[270Shooter]

to bad after the river gets back to normal and fish are returning they wont let anybody fish above the hwy 14 bridge thats not a native american enrolled in the yakima indian nation tribal fishing only on the white now.

are you serious?

[Yak-NDN]

to bad after the river gets back to normal and fish are returning they wont let anybody fish above the hwy 14 bridge thats not a native american enrolled in the yakima indian nation tribal fishing only on the white now.

cannon master where do you get this info from? Me and my brother used to pack sack lunches and disapear all day playing on those side hills west of the dam, when the salmon were running we spent hours watching them stack up in front of the dam thinking what a waste.

sounds like he is talking chit to me.

[blacktail luv]

There was a hellacious amount of silt behind that damn and still is.  The mouth is just about completely filled in.  The river has cut about a 50' channel up through "northwestern lake"  just about to the bridge.  Its pretty impressive to see.  You can't even see the water from that banks of what use to be the lake because it has ate down so far.

[Knocker of rocks]

to bad after the river gets back to normal and fish are returning they wont let anybody fish above the hwy 14 bridge thats not a native american enrolled in the yakima indian nation tribal fishing only on the white now.

cannon master where do you get this info from? Me and my brother used to pack sack lunches and disapear all day playing on those side hills west of the dam, when the salmon were running we spent hours watching them stack up in front of the dam thinking what a waste.

sounds like he is talking chit to me.

 

[Huntbear]

There are no hatchery fish on this river, never have been.  So all the fish that are caught by "sportsmen" with rod and reel are only the fish that pull into the mouth to get some cooler cleaner water and to rest.  However, we WERE allowed to fish in a boat upstream towards the dam.

According to the people I talked to about the dam, the natives will be able to net the river above the Hwy. 14 bridge, so that means taking WILD fish that no one else can even take out of the water for pictures.  No one will be allowed to fish above Hwy 14 EXCEPT "natives".  So yes, us "non natives" get screwed.  IF the Yakamas were truly concerned about restoring the wild salmon runs, they would never put another gill net in the river... but it is not about that.  As usual it is about the money of selling salmon.. not feeding your family...

[blacktail luv]

There are actually hatchery fish on this river.  They plant both summer and winter run steelhead on it.  I believe the washougal hatchery brings a truck load and dumps them up the river.

[spookgus]

I don't like to see smaller private installations being regulated into closure and the government ran BPA(US Dept of Energy) soaking up the new revenue. How much of the U.S. infrastructure and manufacturing will be destroyed by the environmental movement?

My avatar is a picture of my kids with some of their steelhead from the White Salmon.

[Naches Nightmare]

Does anyone have any photos of the mouth and just about the bridge?