Chinook, steelhead jam Columbia fish ladders

registerguard.com ^ | September 19, 2003 | AP

[bicycle thug]

BONNEVILLE DAM - The fall chinook run at the Bonneville Dam was so large last week that some fish were crushed to death on the concrete fish ladders.

Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, more than 40,000 fall chinook fought their way over the dam. On Sunday, 39,642 climbed the ladders there.

All four days surpassed the previous one-day record of 39,376 fall chinook set Sept. 12, 1987. The new high mark was recorded last Thursday, with 45,884 fish.

``I don't think the fish ladders were built to have 46,000 chinook and a bunch of steelhead and a bunch of coho going through on one day,'' said Joe Hymer of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife at Vancouver, Wash.

Steelhead hit a season-high of more than 8,000 fish on Saturday. During the past six days, about 2,000 steelhead have crossed Lower Granite Dam, 35 miles west of Clarkston on the Snake River.

Bonneville Dam has a fish ladder on each side of the Columbia River.

The fall run is on target with the preseason forecast of about 600,000 fall chinook to travel up the mouth of the Columbia River.

[bicycle thug]

Good to see endangered fish in a traffic jam. Let's hear if for the fish.

[bicycle thug]

Got a reel and pole ping.

[stboz]

Omigosh! So many fish, so few alder chips! (Slobber, drool....)

Darlin', get the broiler goin'!!!!

[Arkady]

In eugene and portland, there will never be enough fish....better to unemploy working families related to sports and commercial fishing.
Ah, Oregon, will she ever lift the yoke of kalifornia?
Once upon a time, this was a free, proud hard-working state full of resilient people carving their own destiny, tough as blackberries growing along Jump-Off-Joe Creek. Now, just a bunch of berkley wanna-be's, leading them like soggy-lemmings into the neverending midnight of socialism.

[Mike Darancette]

Got a smoker?

[Waco]

OK,,whats the cause? Global Baloney, alar, demon tobacco, has binnie laddie or the french turned over a leaf? How bout CO², anyone checked on it??? I'm so chagrined!

[bicycle thug]

I was down an hour ago checking out the start of the Eugene Celebration. They were picking this year's "Slug Queen" at the Saturday Market stage. I noted many of them were men in drag, and the minions of homeless down town out numbered the paying customers with entry bracelets almost two to one.

This is a different community then it was in the hayday of the logging boom. No doubt about that.

[annyokie]

Sheesh! I thought we had a helicopter thread going on here.

[Tacis]

Well, the environmentalists will certainly insist that the fish that crushed the other fish be arrested and will blame Bush for the increased fish on fish violence.

[dennisw]

Sometimes a great notion

[MalcolmS]

>>>I noted many of them were men in drag, ... This is a different community then it was in the hayday of the logging boom<<<

No me lads, has been goin' on like this for a dogs age. Why, twas even a song written about it, Arrr. Ye may recall it ...

"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK . . ."

[cmsgop]

I should see some spawning Salmon in my bakyard soon.....

Too Bad they will all look like Hillary Clinton by December....

[stboz]

Got a smoker?

Stuck in an apartment...have to make do with the broiler in the stove.

Get you some Berenstein's Italian dressing and marinade. Marinate the fish in it. Broil or cook over coals and finish with a little alder chips on the coals and a little confectioner's sugar on the fish to glaze lightly. Eat and ask for more. 8-)

[Arkady]

You have my regards if you're still in the people's republic of eugene. There was a time when the slug-festival was an honored event, and the highlight was dunking men-in-drag.
Good-luck and I hope there comes a day when once again you can proudly say "I hate kalifornians" and not get barred from starbucks.

[Arkady]

Thanks for "getting it!"
kesey was a freak, but a true shakespeare-on-the-willamette novel he wrote.
He "got" Oregon, the way it was on that one occaision.
Libs will never "get" Hank Stamper, or any true Oregonian.

[StriperSniper]

Psst!

[dennisw]

I saw the movie but I will read the book if you say it's that good. The movie was great

[bicycle thug]

Thank you my dear. Yes, I am in Eugene; where men are men and wymen are too. (I think being topless is legal here so we can actually tell the gender of some of the characters here of the forth kind.) I will be going to watch the Ducks clean Michigan Wolverine clocks tomorrow at Autzen Stadium.

Then I will go downtown to find some good music and to do some people watching. In Eugene that can be scary. Kind of like being in the Portland Zoo and someone gave all the animals parole. ;-)

[oreolady]

Altho I am in Washington, EVERYBODY knows where Jump Off Joe Creek is!!!!! LOL

[Arkady]

Paul Newman nailed the part like no one else could, but it's one of those cases where the book is ten times better.