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While specific causes have not been identified, the department is confident that our statewide downturn in productivity can point directly back at smolt survival after entering the ocean.
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Minnows tend to work best in the mornings and then swimbaits in the evenings as the stripers feed on the steelhead smolts.
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Meanwhile, the Oregon Legislature is mulling a $350,000 supplemental budget request to operate Leaburg Hatchery for another year and produce a quarter million spring chinook salmon smolts to inject into the upper Willamette River system.
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Spawning salmon means salmon smolt, and there aren't a lot of things that rainbows and char like to eat more.
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Fry and smolts almost immediately begin using the trees for protection from larger fish and birds.
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Schools of smolt salmon flicker like quicksilver, preparing for their journey out to sea.
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Nearly twice that many have gone to Ship Creek, an annual average of 256,000 silver smolt over the last five years.
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Striper fishing was good last week after steelhead smolts were released at Discovery.
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