04/15/2022

My junior high years, 1953-1955, were spent in Redmond. Bear Creek ran into the Sammamish Slough about where the golf course is. The Sammamish Slough ran into Lake Washington, around Bothell.

Around the Avondale Road and the road going to Union Hill, in Bear Creek there was a weir. I do remember, "what seemed like to me" thousands of sockeye both in the weir and down stream. I also remember Bear Creek, above the weir, with thousands of spawned out, dead sockeye.

I have no idea if that weir is even there, would guess not because Redmond today, far cry from the Redmond of my youth.

Anyone know if sockeye still enter Bear Creek??????