"Yuji Sakuma" wrote:

I have three experiences with this sort of stuff.

Several years ago I talked to a biologist at the Tokul Creek steelhead
hatchery in Washington. He said that some times the fish return early
to the hatchery and they keep them in concrete pens until they ripen.
In one cast this was 4 months with no attempt to feed the fish. He
said the fish lost some weight, but the eggs developed normally and the
fish were released after the eggs were stripped from them. These were
7-10 pound fish that survived not eating for 4 months.

Another item was what we saw last summer on Rock Creek. The water was
too warm in the lower creek, so the fish migrated up to the upper
sections. This was easily a 10 to even 20 mile migration, and I think
that's common for Rainbows and Cutthroats.

I caught a Steelhead in the upper Cedar hears ago that had been tagged
3 days earlier at the Ballard locks. That's probably 20 to 30 liles of
swimming through t lakes and a river. The fish fought hard and tasted
fine.

Chas
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