Especially in the area between Big Bend and Cobble Rock Campgrounds? You'll have some SHOCKING companions....you've been warned:
ODFW to conduct trout, whitefish survey on Crooked River
June 1, 2016
PRINEVILLE, Ore. – Biologists from the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) will sample the Crooked River below Bowman
Dam for redband trout and mountain whitefish from Monday, June 13
through Friday, June 17.
Biologists will be electrofishing the river....
between the
Big Bend and Cobble Rock campgrounds. During the sampling, fish will be
stunned and netted so biologists can record the size, condition and
abundance of both redband trout and mountain whitefish. The fish are
then released unharmed. Fishing is likely to be adversely affected in
the portion of the river being sampled but the remainder of the river
will be unaffected. Due to safety concerns for anglers and the
potential adverse effects to the fishing, ODFW requests that anglers
avoid this stretch of river while the biologists are sampling.
The population assessment estimates the number of fish
greater than or equal to eight inches in length per river mile for
redband trout and mountain whitefish. In 2015, the number of redband
trout per mile was 2,582 fish per mile while the number of mountain
whitefish per mile was 7,467. The average length of all trout collected
last year was just over 11 inches long and many anglers are reporting
catching trout that are 16 to 18 inches long in 2015.
ODFW began sampling the Crooked River in 1989 in order to track the long-term health of the redband trout population
