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Fishwheels

They Turn in the Current and Catch Fish

     They're made from river drift logs and pole size trees and sometimes not to much else. Some of the fish friendly wheels used in monitoring are a lot more and at a good expense with special webbing, padding and constuction. Some are made to last a few years and others made to last a good bit more. They all take alot of time to make and set up before the season but they save time when the fish are running thick. They're water soaked and heavy to move, slippery and dangerous to walk on and need constant vigilance or they'll bust apart from drift or hitting bottom. But when that pile of logs, poles, nails, wire, cables, ropes, and all else start turning and catching fish it's a sight to behold.

Click picture to download a 3 minute video of a Rapids subsistence fishwheel during the 2005 record fall chum salmon run. Video is large (about 20MB) so it will take a while to download. Best to start download by - right click on video picture and select save target as

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Fishwheel Pictures

General fishwheel pictures from middle and upper Yukon River in Alaska. Wheels are both subsistence only and test fishwheels that are usually used for both purposes.

3 fish wheels Rapids

3 fish Rapids

5A testwheel

5A testwheel

5A wheel down

5A wheel down

5A wheel side

5A wheel side

Almost a broken wheel

Almost a broken wheel

Austian TV videos Rapids video

Austian TV videos Rapids video

Big morning sun by wheel

Big morning sun by wheel

Campbell wheel push

Campbell wheel push

Charlie B wheel

Charlie B wheel

Charlie C

Charlie C

Charlie and Robin pushing wheel

Charlie and Robin pushing wheel

Charlie and Ruth wheel

Charlie and Ruth wheel

Dave wheel Rampart w

Dave wheel Rampart w

First light Rapids

First light Rapids

Fliris new 3 basket

Fliris new 3 basket

Fog sun wheel morning

Fog sun wheel morning

Ice buildup on  video wheel

Ice buildup on video wheel

Joe Z

Joe Z

Lead set

Lead set

Linda J

Linda J

Linda J

Linda J

Linda and Steve fishingl

Linda and Steve fishingl

Little wheel Mike

Little wheel Mike

Low water record

Low water record

Mikes small wheel

Mikes small wheel

Moving wheels in place

Moving wheels in place

New wheel lead

New wheel lead

Rampart Tag Wheel w

Rampart Tag Wheel w

Rampart Tagging wheel

Rampart Tagging wheel

Rapids Fishwheels

Rapids Fishwheels

Rapids fall video

Rapids fall video

Rapids sunrise

Rapids sunrise

Rapids wheel pull out

Rapids wheel pull out

Setting lead

Setting lead

Smoke and fishwheel

Smoke and fishwheel

Smokey day

Smokey day

Stan on Wheel

Stan on Wheel

Stans Wheel

Stans Wheel

Steve O wheel

Steve O wheel

Wheel and lead

Wheel and lead

Wheel basket and transmitter

Wheel basket and transmitter

Wheel cabled to shore

Wheel cabled to shore

Wheel dips in

Wheel dips in

Wheel from shore

Wheel from shore

Wheel turn

Wheel turn

Youth help on friendly wheel  100

Youth help on friendly wheel 100

wheel raft start

wheel raft start

Baskets ready for wheel

Baskets ready for wheel

Fish wheel 1st

Fish wheel 1st

Spring Ice wheel crush

Spring Ice wheel crush

Tanana Fishwheels

Tanana Fishwheels

Wheel and lead

Wheel and lead

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