What happens to the fish...

[outdoorfanatic]

What happens to the fish when the streams get as high as they are? This pic was taken up farmington canyon. There used to be fish up there but I can't see how anything could survive in water that turbulent. The ground was constantly shaking as the massive boulders rolled by. I'm sure all the creeks along the wasatch front are in a similar situation.

[svpdgcar]

[#505000]They become chum for fish at the bottom of the river drainage!!! [] [/#505000]
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[#505000]I don't know what really happens to them but I anxiously await the informed reply. I've always wondered that too.[/#505000]
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[fuzzyfisher]

the fish stay in the same area of the river.. all the water comeing down dont bother them much..

they are feeding up on all the buggs and worms comeing down out of the ground..
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[PDS]

Some fish can ride out the high water better than others. I grew up near the Weber river and fished it heavily when I was in junior high and high school. It was in walking distance from my house. The river used to be full of whitefish from the mouth of Weber canyon down to Riverdale. But the floods of '83 nearly cleaned them out of the river in that section. The trout survived well, but it was several years before I caught another whitefish out of that section. They are pretty well established again, but it has been over 20 years since that big water came down. I don't know if it had anything to do with the sediment in the water, or if all the flooding water got into too many farmers fields and emptied them of all the pesticides that they had used for years. Whatever happened, it sure cleaned them out of the river.
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