Transfixing spectacle continues at Leo Cronin -- some of the best viewing I've seen in nine years and hundreds of hours on the creek.
Now moved one notch upstream from Sunday's party, five male coho lined up like train cars behind a nesting female, thrashing, snapping, fighting, sidling, stealing home, splashing, cajoling, digging, and shivering.
She was hoping for better habitat --made some bids for the more desireable real estate just above the boulders (great aeration, good gravel). But it was not to be -- the worn white-tailed female at the far upstream edge of the redd still had enough to moxy to chase the newcomer off, defending her redd til she dies.
A second fresher female swam through the melee as though she had somewhere to go... an upstream redd in the making?
In the meantime, the first fresher female gave up and got serious about a redd just below the fern. The males were ecstatic -- and so were the fish watchers.
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