Shasta Lake California Stocking

[stan]

Well today F&G Biologist Monty, Steve and myself were on hand to welcome the new residents to Shasta Lake, 87,840 King Salmon, all were in the 3" to 6" range and 9mos old.

This is the second stocking in two years on the Sacramento arm of the lake. .Monty and Steve told me , we will have a total of 90,000 for stocking in 2011 for Shasta , which will be the highest number of Kings. The driver of the second truck on the left went to take the surface temperature, to make sure it was safe to stock the fish. Surface temp was at 65.5 degrees and in range of stocking policy. Between this year and last, we have now stocked 143,840 Kings on the Sacramento arm of the lake. The 1stocking was from Sugar Loaf 4 miles south of the years stocking from Antlers boat ramp and only 1 1/2 miles to moving water. Monty is hoping that a number of these fish from today will move north to the moving water. If all goes well, we should see some fish going up river to spawn and for sure in 2012

[stan]

[LongLine]

Man it's going to be a long winter now. We had a frost in the city overnight, so I better get out & rake some leaves.

You have any walleyes in that lake? What kind of survival rate does your F&G predict?

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[stan]

Tom

No Walleye any where in California that I am aware of, Nevada and the Columbian River is all I know of. There hoping for a 4% return. A friend of mine said he caught 2 of the little guys, all the way down by the dam and it's some 15 miles away from where they went into the water last month.

[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

Good for you, Stan. We have been through lots of this here. Former Region 8 DEC Biologist Carl Widmar re-wrote stocking policy regarding Chinooks 20+ years ago for NYS. More important than water temp at plant site, is water temp in relation to temp of water in stocking truck. 10 degrees or more either way is likely lethal.