June brought continued healthy cutthroat populations, accompanied with heavy vegetation surrounding the creek.
Much like last year, parts of the creek for which are heavily overgrown provide shelter and make numbers of trout a little unpredictable. Although 25 trout were recorded, some sites, such as 7 in Royal Roads University property held only one trout after a day of soaking traps. The same occurred on site 5, suggesting that on these sites the trout have moved to cooler water and where more protection from plant life were available.

One strategy we have contemplated is to test new sites throughout the creek during the month, looking at pools upstream of current sites.

Variability of trout recorded could also be connected to the abundance or not of food. Freshwater shrimp and caddisflies are plentiful in the gee traps when emptied in collection buckets, especially at site 6, a relatively deep pool, where seven trout were recorded.