2021 Spring Creek Redd Count

Sunday was the Spring Creek annual redd count, the weather was just great cold to start and sunny, it was almost warm! The event is put on by the Spring Creek Chapter of TU and this year it was just well organized from start to finish. All paper work was ready with clip boards and pens if you needed them, the food after we were done counting was wonderful, Wegman's just has top quality food and HOT coffee, hat's off the Fran and her husband, John Himes was in charge and did a great job. Our section is the same as always, from the Rock Road parking lot (just below the PFC dam) to Shilo Road at Benner Spring fish hatchery, water was up a bit 148 cfs and clear, we counted "186" redds in this section, only saw 3 fish on active redds but some of the redds were just huge. Looks as if when the rain came the other week it brought the fish up and the leaves out and they did their happy dance. I will post the total results as soon was we get the data from the PFC sites. There was a great midge hatch all day from 9:30 AM till we finished at 11:30 AM and I am sure well beyond that. THe only problem we had was that it was a Sunday hunting day with dsmall game and Bear on the target, we wore orange hats and that might have scared off some trout as we came down the stream. All in all a great count.