"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"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.

Wolfgang


You want better writing, send me money. El Cerrito was the 2nd town over
from Berkeley. My house was 6 miles from UC Berkeley and I fished the
Berkeley Pier at the Foot of University Ave. Road my bike there. There
were lots of streams uncovered in the 50's that held steelhead that fed San
Francisco Bay. We still get steelhead and salmon in Walnut Creek, the
stream and not the town, that flows behind the Sun Valley Shopping Center in
Concord. Cordinices creek that flows through part of UC Berkeley had
steelhead. We still get steelhead trying to run up Alameda Creek in Niles,
but are stopped by the BART transit line bridge. There were only probably
8 million people in the whole state. We passed NY for the most populous
state with about 13 million in about 1959 or 1960. The largest run of
salmon in the lower 48 run up the Sacramento River, which enters the bay on
the Northeast end.