The Nest of Trout

Water temp 3,8oC

Flow 14,5m3/s

I was gladly surprised about the number of trout nests. At the same time sizes of the nests tell about what size of fish have made those. Eighteen of the nests are in lenght between two and three meters. Normally it is 60cm trout wich digs this size of hole. We found four relatively big nests and two of those were almost four meters long. It is over 70cm long trout which dig these size hole and besides of those we found two nests oven 4 m in size. These size nests you can expect to find in big lake/river systems like as Lake Saimaa. For example in Kerma Rapids and Vihonvuonne. Trout digging this size of nests must be over 80cm size. During inventory, one this size trout was seen, not clearly but the widht of its back was more than 20cm. This tells that it is over 80cm long, which is very gorgeous brown trout.

Large nest

Accomplishments of smaller trout

Producing the inventory of trout nests

Temp. 4,0 oC
Flow  14,5 m3/s

It's really gray and misty today. I don't mind because it's going to be very interesting day. I'm going to count trout nests with Vesi-Vision guys. Earlier I had found some fifteen nests, but today we have "water window", an aid to see better beyond the surface.  

Searchin trout nests in King's Branch

During the progress of inventory it is obvious that there exist so many nests that there is need to check larger area.
We can find moore and moore nests and this rises our mood in a manner that we descided to chek all potential looking palces. After inventory we had found 41 nests overall. Very, very positive. Now we are hoping that the most of the eggs will hatch. This would be very positive progress for lake migrating brown trout.