Clearwater log drives

[300Six]

When I pulled that Youtube video up I found they had the Lassie version too. I had never actually seen it so I was surprised to find she went down the mountain in flume boat. What I do remember is how many nice trout were in the little pond they made to feed the flume!

That tells me the flume pond was spring or mountain fed with clean/clear water. A mere Aspirin tablet in a small pool of water will wipe out all of the Brook Trout in it. Also tells me (in the absence of other direct means of outflow) that immigration of new trout (gravid females especially) was nil. Speckles are 'canaries in the coal mine' when it comes to environmental assessment!
And hot damn if wild ones (not hatchery reared) don't taste like a million bucks fresh off a hook or fly and fried in butter in a cast iron frypan over a campfire! The new world order of outdoors folks are increasingly going to have to go out of their way to experience what us 'becoming-old-timers' not that long ago considered 'right of passage'.

 

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That tells me the flume pond was spring or mountain fed with clean/clear water. A mere Aspirin tablet in a small pool of water will wipe out all of the Brook Trout in it. Also tells me (in the absence of other direct means of outflow) that immigration of new trout (gravid females especially) was nil. Speckles are 'canaries in the coal mine' when it comes to environmental assessment!
And hot damn if wild ones (not hatchery reared) don't taste like a million bucks fresh off a hook or fly and fried in butter in a cast iron frypan over a campfire! The new world order of outdoors folks are increasingly going to have to go out of their way to experience what us 'becoming-old-timers' not that long ago considered 'right of passage'.

It fed out of the Little White Salmon river which I think is one of the many streams that start on Mt. Adams.

 

[300Six]

It fed out of the Little White Salmon river which I think is one of the many streams that start on Mt. Adams.

Whatever. If there's speckled trout in it you can safely drink the water, except for risk of 'beaver fever' from the toothy rodents pooping in the water upstream.