Fall is early in the wonderful Cache Valley and the colors are amazing. We found out on Sunday at church that the Kokanee Salmon were spawning up above the Porcupine Reservoir at the Cinnamon Creek river, so we decided to take a trip and see it for ourselves. We have heard about it since we moved up here and wanted to see it and now we had the chance. The whole drive was awesome because of the Autumn colors changing in the canyon. We usually tried to make it to Kolob every Fall when we lived in St. George but this year we found our own little piece of Heaven in the Cache Valley. Tiffany even admitted that this canyon is way prettier than the Kolob area and I have to agree.
When we got to the creek we could already see the red little figures in the water. We all got really excited to see them, so we hiked down the trail to get a closer look. It was way cool to see the red salmon swimming up stream to spawn. Some people we talked to said that this was just the beginning of them coming up stream. They told us to give it a week or so and the whole stream would be full of fish and the water will look red because there are so many of them. We are going to take their advice and come up again when Tiffany's parents are up. Stay tuned.
It is crazy the transition they make in order to start the spawning process. They are usually grey and white like a trout and have round noses, but they turn a bright red color and they get a pointed mouth and teeth during the spawning time. We all had a great time walking the creek looking at the Kokanee.
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