Photo Pages. Photos on this page are from sub-basin Freshwater Creek-Ryan Slough
and series Fish: Freshwater Creek Fish Pictures 1970's.
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This large chinook salmon was caught in lower Freshwater Creek. The early returning chinooks that anglers caught in tide water were probably the result of chinook salmon introductions (click on InfoLinks tab for more information). The strain of early returning chinook found flows in Freshwater Creek too low for successful migration upstream and fell prey to anglers. Native chinook in Humboldt Bay tributaries return during winter storms from December through January.
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This large chinook salmon was caught in lower Freshwater Creek. in the eraly 1970's when chinook salmon were being planted. Photo courtesy of Freshwater resident.
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This large chinook salmon was caught in lower Freshwater Creek during the fall in the early 1970's and was likely a fish introduced through hathcery transplanting. The strain of early returning chinook found flows in Freshwater Creek too low for successful migration upstream and fell prey to anglers in the reach of tidewater from Ryan Slough to Three Corners. Picture provided by Freshwater resident.
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Anotehr large chinook salmon caught in tidewater of Freshwater Creek and likely a result of chinook salmon planiting of an early returning strain of early that found Freshwater Creek too low for successful migration upstream and fell prey to this young angler. Photo provided by Freshwater resident.
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