Fish Inventory Site HABANC2022A01

Coordinates (dec. deg.): 61.11745°, -149.75027°
Legal Description: S012N003W23
Region: South Central

Datum: WGS84
Quad Name / ITM: Anchorage A-8
AWC Stream #: 247-60-10340-2018-3006
Stream Name: South Fork Little Campbell Creek

Elevation:

Site Comments: Surveyed stretch of South Fork Little Campbell Creek at Lake O’ the Hills, near O’Malley Road and Hillside Drive. Sampled reaches just below and above lake. There is a low head damn at outlet of lake, and there is another man-made wooden low barrier to fish passage a little upstream of the lake on the incoming stream.

Survey Date: May 19, 2022

Survey HABANC-2022A01

Project Supervisor: William Frost, Alaska Department of Fish and Game — Anchorage, AK
Observers: Josh Brekken, Scott Graziano

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: Conductivity: Stream Stage:
Water Color: Turbidity: Stream Gradient:
Qualitative Velocity: 48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff:
Substrates:
Channel Dimensions:
  (OHW) (Wetted)
Stream Width:
Thalweg Depth:
Rosgen Channel Classification:
Visit Comments: None

Vegetation Classification

Left Bank Right Bank
Distance
From
OHW(m)
0-5
5-10
10-20
20-30

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (A)
EF Time(s): Efficiency:
Channel Type:
Comments: Sampling from Lower Waypoint up to Lake 'O The Hills outlet where low head damn is located.
Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (B)
EF Time(s): Efficiency:
Channel Type:
Comments: Sampled short reach of creek from inlet of lake upstream to Upper Waypoint. Fish passage blocked at Upper Waypoint

Fish Observations

Species: juvenile/adult Dolly Varden Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 3 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier: Human, Dam
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 170 Max: 170 Mean: 170
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (3)
 
Species: adult spawning rainbow trout Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 26 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier: Human, Dam
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 330 Max: 330 Mean: 330
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (26)
Comments: Observed active RT spawning on redds at three locations; 1) 61.11619 N, -149.75392 W., 2) 61.11640 N, -149.75261 W., and 3) 61.11663 N, -149.75253 W
 
Species: juvenile rainbow trout Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 56 Fish Measured: 2 Passage Barrier: Human, Dam
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 125 Max: 130 Mean: 127
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (46) Backpack Electrofisher (10)
 
Species: adult rainbow trout Life History: Resident
Total Fish Observed: 10 Fish Measured: 1 Passage Barrier: Human, Other
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 300 Max: 300 Mean: 300
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (10)
 

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