Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by FishinHank
Originally Posted by Sitka deer
Originally Posted by FishinHank
Originally Posted by 458Win
The Bears are in place along the streams and waiting. And the Salmon seem to be rapidly pushing into the streams this year, rather than stacking by the outlets


We are seeing that here also. We had a bunch of fish jam up the creek when they normally would kinda test the waters a few times before coming up the ladder. These ones have just been blasting up. One weird thing we have been seeing is a huge number of tapeworms coming out of the fish after they are in freshwater for a while. Not sure if its the change from SW to FW that is causing it. No sushi for me thanks!

Are you attempting to id the worms? Are they the new Japanese species from a few years ago?


We haven't tried to ID them. Definitely some kind of tapeworm.

The unusual numbers makes me wonder if they are new and if they will have other impacts.


We used to catch lake trout in NY had guts loaded with tapeworms. Here in a couple of months every bear around will be trailing some around behind them after they get into the fish for a while. I think we are just seeing a lot of them right now is because these fish ran directly up instead of milling around for a bit. On a normal year those tapeworms might have been expelled by the time we see them. This is all just a guess on my part. Will be interesting to see if the processors are seeing anything. We've delivered some fish but nobody has contacted us about anything like that.