Originally Posted By: Carcassman
As I thought about it more, or my memory defogged, the early fry were from summer chum. Since we ran traps and electrofished we'd have seen them and it seemed by March that stock had cleared. But, the normal-timed fish I worked with emerged in March/April/early May. We'd collect them during the day and release at night. The SRCT would basically open their mouths at the outfall pipe........Those cutties also clobbered coho smolts.


Cutts love pink fry as well, but we'll have to wait until next spring for that.

Just curious, what was the earliest date that you witnessed summer chum actually spawning?
It is always fun to stop by the counting station at the end of a day of cutt fishing to see how many summer chum have been counted.
This year it was about 5,300+. Since they count 8/15 to 10/15, it seems like there might be some overlap at the end with late summer / early fall fish but I'm not really sure.
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