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Title: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: FREDIN on February 25, 2022, 08:13:24 PM: https://nwsportsmanmag.com/who-killed-the-skookumchuck-angler-asks-after-drop/
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: Dirty Mike on February 25, 2022, 08:25:48 PM: Yea seen that. Pretty sad state
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: PolarBear on February 25, 2022, 08:57:55 PM: I drove over it yesterday and it was flowing about normal for this time of year.
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: Dirty Mike on February 25, 2022, 09:23:01 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on February 25, 2022, 08:57:55 PM
I drove over it yesterday and it was flowing about normal for this time of year.
it is now But they had completely shut down the damn flow and the only water that was feeding it was bloody run and a bypass. It was shutdown for 12 hrs leaving reds exposed
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: Jake Dogfish on February 25, 2022, 11:37:06 PM: Sickening! :bash:
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: metlhead on February 26, 2022, 09:55:44 AM: As long as you were not down there with rod and reel over the past 3 months impacting non-existent wild steelhead, this is fine.
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: PolarBear on February 26, 2022, 12:52:53 PM: Quote from: metlhead on February 26, 2022, 09:55:44 AM
As long as you were not down there with rod and reel over the past 3 months impacting non-existent wild steelhead, this is fine.
99%+ of the steelhead in that system are hatchery. Any reds were probably coho and those should have been done with months ago.
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: metlhead on February 26, 2022, 01:43:43 PM: Actually the wild coho spawn in that river through February.
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: Bullkllr on February 26, 2022, 01:55:08 PM: Quite a few kings spawn in the stretch below the dam. Silvers too. The eggs would still be in the gravel, of course. Depending on where they are, I'm not sure a 12 hour dewatering would be survivable.
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: metlhead on February 26, 2022, 02:00:04 PM: Coho will go deep into gravel and survive dry up of a stream. But that is only after hatching, which they have not yet done. Very remarkable fish they are.
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: timberfaller on February 26, 2022, 03:14:14 PM: If you want something, anything screwed up, let the government and/or un-elected bureaucrats control it or make decision's on how its suppose to work!!

We've seen plenty just in the last six months!!! Let alone decades of stupidity!!
Title: Re: Skookumchuck river *censored* up
Post by: BigGoonTuna on February 26, 2022, 03:41:07 PM: Transalta isn’t the government.