Content: | Down at the latest Arroyo Seco restoration party Wednesday afternoon, a celebration teeming with Pasadena\'s finest, all the boss Greenies were chiding me for indicating fish would actually be released into the arroyo stream as part of the celebration.
Well, that\'s what the city press release indicated would happen. Turns out the work will make the waters safe for arroyo chub and trout once again - someday.
Besides, it wouldn\'t have been a good day to be a fish down there, what with the swift runoff of 100 cubic feet per second roaring by. The endangered chub wouldn\'t have lasted for long in their former home waters. The little guppie-looking critters need calmer pools to rest in than the post-rain runoff was offering. So the surprisingly large crowd had to be content with viewing visiting Riverside County chub in an aquarium.
Judy Weiss Wilson and Tim Brick were among the key leaders in securing the $2.5 million for the Central Arroyo Stream Restoration Program, a joint project of the Arroyo Seco Foundation and the city. Let\'s indeed hope the waters beneath the Colorado Street Bridge will soon be safe for the chub.
To view a rather larger Arroyo Seco denizen, go to my blog today, Web address below.
Brick forwarded to me a quote from Tournament of Roses founder Charles Holder in an 1890s letter to those in the East boasting of what it\'s like at Christmas time in the Arroyo Seco: \"this leafy retreat, the birds singing all about, and trout darting from the horses\' feet.\"
Altadenan Tom Joyce writes with an equally idyllic, if more slapstick, memory: \"I remember catching trout upstream in the arroyo above JPL. This was in the \'50s, and instead of going to the High Sierras we settled on hiking up the road and trail and catching the limits on several occasions.
\"One time while fly fishing I caught a friend, Mike Enright, in the nose and he never went fishing with me again.\"
larry.wilson@sgvn.com
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