Northwest Fishing Reports

This summer my company has been installing continuous flow biofiltration swales at all major creeks along highway 530 yo to Darington. They will keep sediments and pollutants from making it into the river. We are also putting in huge fish friendly culverts on prairie creek in Arlington. I will try to some correct size picks to post. Feels good to help fish, and make money doing it

What size culvert? I know the DNR is now requiring bigger culverts in F type streams.

Big enough to drive a car through. Something like 7 feet high 20 foot wide

Very nice. Now I can fit through.

spoonman wrote:Big enough to drive a car through. Something like 7 feet high 20 foot wide

That can't be a minimum requirement? That's interesting. Good job.

Finally know how to post pics. These are prairie creek in arlington. We pulled the little culvert and replaced it with huge ones complete with new streambed. Actually saw coho spawning in there in December, really cool.

Here is the after, nice cozy place to spawn. Just need some Berry White and candles.

These are a couple of the bio filtration swales we made on the north fork of the stilly. We made some on both sides of the landslide.

very cool.

Well we are at it again! This one is on jim creek rd.

Moving this little guy up to sultan for another culvert replacement starting next week. Scooped up several fry today and moved them to the other side of our diversion dam.

really cool pictures! The new tubes are quite an improvement over the old ones.

Hope you get to work on installing lots of those!

We usually do a few every summer. There is only a small window to get them in. Once the water levels are down enough, we have to scramble and get them in before the fall rains ( and fish) show up

That's pretty cool spoonman, good job to you and your team. what exactly is the job title that mainly does restoration construction or what ever you guys call this haha. they did a project similar like that by my house several years ago and seemed like it didn't help at all, killed the kings that used to run up, very less coho than what it used to have but still chums. maybe it has to do with poachers as well who knows...

Dont know what you would call us. We are just an excavating company that is pretty good at doing these so we can bid them competitively. Thats too bad to hear about the project over on your side. Tge ones that we do seem to be successful, I like to go back and check on them in the winter to see if I can find any redds.

that is good stuff. I am still amazed at trash I find( and pick up) when I go fishing either with my kids or alone

Jim creek culvert coming right along...