Snider Creek was an issue that a bunch of us started as an induction towards bringing back some of the early fish. There were a bunch of us who worked for a lot of hours to bring this to bloom. So many people were unaware of the amount of early fish that there used to be.
I am talking November Steelhead in abundance.

We saw what was happening and through a lot of effort and relationships built with some biologists we were able to get this program going. Unfortunately the head of the Fish and Game at that time had a meeting with us at the Forks Sportsmans club and essenetially told us we did not know what we were talking about as none of us had fisheries degrees. We were trying to impress upon them the need to protect the early returning fish that were diminshing, more and more.

Now I know a lot of you were not part of this effort, and some of you look at it as a mistake, yet it has been viable. It was some of the guides in Forks and a few locals who pulled this whole thing together.

A little known fact is that there were often a lot more than 50,000 smolts that were viable. A lot of them were put in streams in the upper SolDuc and residualized and became true wild fish. One year there was more than 160,000 to release. So the good times are the efforts of a few that so many of you enjoy now..........