Brandon Smith – KLCC
We have received numerous inquiries regarding “very, very large dark fish” from anglers fishing the headwaters of Mckenzie and Middle Fork Willamette watersheds, so here is a recent article from KLCC public radio about how those Spring Chinook got there:
Every summer thousands of hatchery-raised Chinook salmon gather at the base of Dexter Dam. The dam was built in the 1950s without much thought for migrating fish. That’s made a lot of work the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Every adult salmon that is upriver of Dexter Dam is there because someone threw it into the back of a truck. There is simply no physical way for them to swim past Dexter Dam. – See the complete story [HERE]
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