Probably the biggest single factor driving the recent large chinook and steelhead returns to the CR is federally mandated spill since 2005. Spill helps the system of impounded lakes to function more like a real river from April thru August. This significantly improves the passage of juveniles during the spring/summer out-migration.

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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
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