P.O.B.T.R. 2025 Day 5:

    Today we went to Tshimakain Creek, Wellpinit guided by Jordyn Mhehmley and Josh Keiffer. Experienced people who took time out of their day to show us what they do as reservation fish technicians in their day-to-day lives. Their group has spent a lot of time getting to know and gain trust with the locals at the creek so that they would be able to run their analysis's on the creek's ecosystem. They taught us about the Redband trout that they are trying to increase the population of. 

    After about 3 shifts with the first equipment they took us to a different part of the Tshimakain Creek where we took a short lunch break before they would show us how they would get rid of the invasive species threatening the Redband population. This fishing process required some light zapping that didn't kill the fish, just turned them belly-up for enough time to catch them with our nets. We made our way into the creek with our waders on following the lead of Josh and Jordyn, in the end, catching a few small fishes, a brown trout, and a Redband. The current was very strong so it was pretty hard to pull the net with me while it was under the water but at least I managed to catch one. 

    After that we collected our water and information and then we were allowed to swim in the creek for a bit. I can't swim so I preferred not to enter, it didn't look to deep but I wasn't risking that. It was fun watching everyone else swim for a while though, by the sounds of it it was freezing in there. 

    A few minutes later it was time to head out again, back to camp. On arrival we had some time to wind down for a bit, I made some calls home and then we ate dinner. There was a projector set up that needed to be put up for tomorrow so we decided to watch a movie on it. I had the hunger games so we ended up watching that from my iPad for a while only for the projector to die halfway, but it was getting late anyways so it was fine. I even managed to write a decent amount of my blogs during the first hour of the movie too.

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