Wolfgang wrote:
"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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I grew up in the Berkeley hills. El Cerrito. The creek down the
street from my house was not covered over in those days (1950's) and
the steelhead could travel all the way up to the railroad tracks a
block below my house. Was a trash grate there that kept them from
coming up further. The still spawned and the creek 2 blocks up would
have lots of smolts and minnows swimming around. Only fished
sal****er in those days off the shore and Berkeley pier as well as
off boats.

I didn't think this one was an especially good bit or writing. What
makes it interesting is the reference to quality trout fishing in
close proximity to a major metropolitan center in what I presumed to
be marginal habitat anyway, and the fact that brookies were already
well established on west coast streams at least as early as 1915. I
was kind of hoping that someone familiar with the area would offer
comments. Thanks.

I imagined the trout fishery was already doomed by then, so the report
was a bit surprising to me as well. I once picked up a book in Berkeley
titled "Berkeley 1900" that was a good informational read. Berkeley's
human popuation growth was one of the fastest in the country between
1900 - 1920, going from 13,000 to around 56,000, with the bulk of that
coming before 1910. Although business growth was already expanding, the
1906 earthquake sped up the growth on the east side of the bay due to a
lot of business relocation from the devastated west side. Interesting
stuff.
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