Downtown Woodbridge on Reels

Another successful fish release happened late last week, this time at the Mokelumne River below Woodbridge Dam. About 30,000 Central Valley steelhead raised at the Mokelumne River Hatchery were marked before their release, so that anglers will know they are hatchery-reared and not wild. These year-old steelhead are about 8 to 10 inches long, and will return to spawn as adults in two to three years. This will be Mokelumne River Hatchery’s only steelhead release of the 2017; the hatchery also has