A bear dug up an ant nest along a fence line a few days before the first check.
After coming back from a long trip, hitting the fences in the July weather was a welcoming chore, the fenceline from Wood Road 16 to Pinehaven was full of cattle and some bear sign, but it is a nice walk and some places to keep my hands working on the fence I will be seeing for the rest of the season, H-post repairs are underway this week at Last Chance and taking off the wooden posts and clipping onto t-posts are the other work that has been keeping me busy, it's all work in 75+ degree warm days, but it's the best kind of work I could have asked for.
The LC fenceline consists of removing wire from the wooden posts, pulling it over the t posts, and clamping to the T posts.
The other job the Byers intern is in charge of is cleaning weeds out of the Chester fish ladder, which is a once or twice-a-week chore that consists of pulling weeds out of the chutes or from the top of the wooden planks that make up the gaps that let the fish rest. Those weeds are thrown on the side of the concrete where someone picks them up with a pitchfork (Stacie Beard) and throws them into the river, July 24 had the most after cleaning it out a mere 5 days ago, It is cool to see the fish use the ladder while the water is lowered and the beginning of the canal has a ceiling of the most and the biggest orb weaver spiders I've ever seen.
I took a two-week trip at the end of June to go on a hunting safari in South Africa with my dad, it was hard to leave such a rugged and beautiful place with great food and people and return to working on the river, but it does feel nice to be home and to be fishing again.
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