The last monitoring session of the 2024 season was accompanied with wet cool weather. Water temperature has dropped to just under 10 degrees showing the consistency of the creek throughout the year.

Despite the drop in numbers, trout measured were healthy and ranged from 55 to 135 millimetres. We recorded two large sculpins from site two; it appears they are attracted to the oysters and smoked mussels used as bait in the bee traps.

This month we have started using the traditional streamkeeper fish viewer again for observing and measuring the cutthroat. The viewer makes it easy to photograph and measure the fork length of the trout which is from the tip of the nose to the inside length of the tail fork.

This example is 13 centimetres or 130 millimetres in length. Other typical cutthroat indicators are the spotted body and the orange flash just under the jaw.