I think the incredible amount of lunker brown trout caught last year was due to #3 being closed. They came up and had no where to go, so it was an unbelievable year. I'm hoping with the ladder open, they will move up stream and go straight up the ladder.
I was talking about this last fall with my fishing buddy. He owned one of the first condo's built at Point Royale, if that gives you an idea of how long we have fished Taney. We've never seen so many browns milling around above rebar as we did last year.
MDC needs to move the cable out so once the fish get in the chute they are protected from snaggers. The past couple years at Bennett they were working on the hatchery and they left the gate open at the bottom, where it enters the stream. The runs below the pens were stacked with browns all winter long. Once the first fish went into the run the rest followed like a salmon run.
SIO3.