[or-roots] Smelt run in the Sandy River

[Eugene Barnes]

  HI:

  I can also recall the "Pink" salmon.  We used to have fish and jacks for
breakfast.  Where the old saw mill was, down the road was a
  large two story log home.  My father was
  caretaker there circa '34-'35.  It was still there in 1970.  The owner was
perplexed
  with several cedar stumps.  I was there when the trees were felled.

  Gene
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  From: <Magbatt at aol.com>
  To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
  Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:09 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Smelt run in the Sandy River


  > Hi Dorothy,
  >
  > Somehow missed your posting until just now, but oh the memories it
brought
  > back!
  > My dad used to come and get me and my younger brother out of school
(third
  > grade  Portland, about 1949) and drive us up to the Sandy in our old
Studebaker.
  >  People were lined up cheek to jowl, and it seems that it was always
POURING
  > down rain.  (What - smelt don't like sunshine?)
  >
  > The only new towels my mom ever had were from some little "general
store" in
  > Sandy.  Daddy would buy a couple to dry us off with and wrap us in for
the
  > trip home.  I can remember my mother being upset because he had taken us
out of
  > school, until the teacher said we'd learn a lot more going for the smelt
than
  > sitting in the classroom all day.
  >
  > Another time he took us out of school and up to some lake and fishing
lodge
  > near Sauvies Island (sp?)   There was a great big wide deck/dock that
wrapped
  > around the lake side of the lodge.  We walked through the big wide
double
  > doors, and my brother was looking off to the side, or behind him, or and
just kept
  > walking right off the deck and into the lake.  Only about six and
couldn't
  > swim, so my dad had to fish him out.  Oh well, we caught fish and had
fun, so
  > what the heck.
  >
  > I wonder what the smelt runs in the Sandy are like now.  It seemed the
river
  > used to be a solid moving mass of them fifty years ago.    MIdge
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