Area covered: Byrne Bridge (Tag 507) to bottom of ravine stairs (Tag 521).
Sunny with scattered clouds, mid-afternoon.
Saw 24 live salmon, 23 chum and 1 coho.
Processed 6 dead chum.
Details:
1 dead chum, female, E-T 51cm, nose eaten away N-F likely around 61cm. No eggs, save for some teeny undeveloped ones in sacs. Severely abraded tail and anal fin, so she'd been working hard. Just u/s of Meadow Bridge, halfway between tags 507 and 508. Could not do complete fin count, as top part of tail also eaten.
1 dead chum, male, E-T 56cm N-F 68cm. All fins. Partly spawned (one sac emptied). Tag 508 in the spawning channel.
1 dead chum, male, E-T 59cm N-F 73cm. All fins. Spawned. Tag 509 in the spawning channel.
1 dead chum, female, E-T 55cm N-F 65cm. All fins. A few eggs, also undeveloped ones still in sacs. Tag 510 in the spawning channel.
1 dead chum, female, E-T 60cm N-F 69cm. All fins. 1 normal egg inside plus some undeveloped still in sacs. In the SedPond, Tag 514.
1 dead chum, male, E-T 60cm, N-F 75cm. All fins. Spawned. In the SedPond, Tag 514.
Live fish:
1 chum d/s of Meadow Bridge. Getting weak.
17 live chum in the SedPond and at the lower end of the Southridge culvert. Mix of oldies and newcomers.
2 live fish 15m d/s of Tag 517 in the ravine at lower end of slide. 1 was a coho, likely female. She had what looked like a small bite taken out of the back of her neck. This is the "mystery" silver-coloured fish we saw yesterday. Today she was taking on coho colours. The other fish was larger and a couple of meters downstream of the coho. It was near a deep pool and was hard to see. At first we though it may be a male coho, however we eventually thought we could see vertical patterns like a male chum. Time will tell....
Other streamkeepers say they saw a coho in the above area today, however they didn't notice a bite mark on the neck, so there could well be another coho.
2 live chum 15m u/s of Tag 517. This is the couple we saw yesterday. They appeared to be done spawning and were hanging around protecting their redd.
2 live chum 15m u/s of Tag 521 at the bottom of the ravine stairs. We first saw them there yesterday, and they were still actively spawning. Lots of splashing. They've been a big hit with several passersby when we point them out.