To run some calculations, with 4 miles of river is, say, 6000m. say a 10m width (at slf) that gives 60,000 sq m. At 2 kg/sq m that would be 120,000 kg of coho. say the average coho was 4 kg. That gives 30,000 spawners. So, 600 is next to nothing. Both coho and steelhead are spawn high/rear lower fish. The fry seed downstream and the tendency is to have more spawners higher up so the fry can, in theory, move downstream, into and thorough the lake, and seed lower down.

Speaking of kelts, we handled a lot through our trap. On more than a few occasions we got females that were spawned out, chrome bright, and recovering condition nicely as they were gorging on Carpenter Ants. We also got some fungus-up fish that probably screamed really loudly when they hit the salt.