Another update from Dennis Hinton, one of the volunteers who’s currently watching for coho salmon during spawning season along Fauntleroy Creek, which started welcoming back spawners after a huge restoration project a decade ago:
Exciting day on the creek. I watched in the rain from noon til 2 pm.
Saw:
A happy couple spawning.
A jack of about two pounds that had a brief battle in the love nest, then squirted up the creek (photo of jack attached).
Remains of a big carcass high on the bank just outside the culvert.Two redds I’ve seen so far are now marked with little white ribbons.
Creek when I left had risen to .90—getting almost too high and cloudy to read the water.
Total fish count since 11/19/11 is eight.
As noted in previous coverage, last year the creek didn’t see a single spawner.
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