NEN,

I know these creeks quite well, and there is a lot of sockeye and silvers spawning in the lower reaches. PSA (Mercer Island chapter or Renton chapter) places spawning barrels in them. A long time resident of Lake Ballinger raises and releases coho into Ballinger and they swim down McAleer creek into Lake Washington When I was a little kid, the lake washington cutts could make it up the creek to Ballinger and behond. But when I-5 was built, a weir was constructed under the freeway blocking fish passage and creating too much cfs. These creeks are deffenitly salvageable.

Cig