Can't anything be done about the mud in the Stilly?
The whole river system seemed a disaster last fall.
Bruce
Whidbey and Japan
----- Original Message -----
From: Angela Sienkiewich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:22 PM
Subject: Deer Creek Fish (Regards to the Stilly)
> Please leave the Deer Creek Steelhead alone.
> Since a mud slide nearly wiped them out, and someone correct me if I'm
> wrong, only 500 return now a year from 50, instead of the healthy run of
> 5,000 back in the 60s, it is not a good thing to be targeting them. They
> are a very aggressive little summer run that use to have the reputation of
> being one of the fiestiest fish to catch on a dry fly but since their
> numbers have been decimated to near extinction, due to bad logging
> practices (Surprise Surprise). Fishing by the mouth of Deer Creek is not
a
> good thing. This only applies to their return months of June & July.
>
> Please consult your Steelhead Book about the history of Deer Creek.
>
> They are very fragile and anyone accidentally tiring them out and
> exhausting them to death is doing a bad bad thing. Their numbers can't
> take a bad C&R.
>
> The Deer Creek fish thank you.
>
> Go fish below Fortson.
>
>
