It was pretty cool last night seeing how quickly the fry headed downstream after the release.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen chum fry in December over all the years I’ve fished the canal including areas near summer chum streams. Might be because I’m not looking for them at that time of the year.
Like everything, things vary year to year. Mid to late March has always been the beginning of seeing decent numbers of fry and the fish attacking them.
Based on what I’ve seen so far this year and the lack of post spawn fish, peak cutthroat spawning hasn’t happened quite yet. At least in the areas I like to fish.
Some years you run into a good number of post spawn fish in late January.
SF