Migration Route & Spring Chinook Salmon Jumping Dagger Falls in Idaho

Several years ago I tried to create a fly in from the Pacific Ocean to the mountains of Idaho showing the difficult migration route salmon have to navigate to get to spawning grounds in Idaho. Finally I have a better version of this Google Earth Fly in to Dagger Falls on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. On July 4, 2010 Spring Chinook Salmon were jumping up the waterfalls and I was able capture this rare event on video. This journey to this point is about 700 miles and over 6000 feet in elevation gain and they go on to the spawning grounds several miles and more elevation gain

This year more Sockeye Salmon migrated to Redfish Lake at the base of the Sawtooth Mountains than have for several years. This journey is about 900 miles from the Pacific Ocean and about 7000 feet in elevation gain. If I can find some footage or still photos of this event I could make another fly in to end at Redfish Lake.

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Film & Animation

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• Chinook Salmon
• migration route
• Pacific Ocean
• Idaho
• Dagger Falls
• Salmon River
• Middle Fork.

[cndbishop]

Great video! I worked at Redfish Lake for 4 summers and have a spot in my heart for the Sockeye!