By the end of July, Bee Creek has been heavily overgrown with blackberries, horse tails and weeds making access to the monitoring sites a little challenge in some cases. The number of trout recorded continued to drop although the fish measured were lively , of good colour and appeared to be eating well.

The creek holds a variety of food for the cutthroat including freshwater shrimp and caddisfly casings which are fewer indicating that these insects have moved on to the next stage. A new insect to us, (banner photo) looks like a caterpillar, but is likely to be freshwater invertebrate, yet to identified.

The pools in the creek are somewhat smaller and lower than last year with recordings concentrated towards the mouth and more upstream. Water quality testing by CRD will begin in August which may provide solutions to the question of trout numbers.