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I 102.8 TOMKOK CREEK (lliaima Lake) 



RED SALMON RUMS 



PERCENT OF TOTAL KVICHAK ESCAPEMENT: <l/o (I962) 



ESCAPEMEIW RANGE: 0-5,000 



TIME OF OCCUPANCY: Aug. 5-Sept. 20 



PEAK OF SPAWNING: Aug. 15-Sept. 10 



DISTRIBUTION OF SPAWNERS: Most spawning in lower 3 miles and in several 

 side channels in this section. 



GENERAL INFORJ-IATION 



SHELTER: A small boat can be taken into creek mouth. Bay at creek moiith 

 shallow and strewn with boulders. 



SURVEY ROUTES Alff) METHODS: Aerial visibility poor due to overhanging brush. 

 Best foot survey route is along banks and over stream'bed. Easily waded 

 during normal water levels . 



PERSONAL- USE FISHERY: None reported. 



FISH SPECIES: Dolly Varden, rainbow. 



WILDLIFE SPECIES: Seagulls. 



REMARKS: Because of a severe flood in 1921, a major watershed change occurred 

 involving Tomkok and Chekok Creeks . As a result most of the flow from 

 Chekok Creek was diverted to Tomkok Creek. This breakthroxjgh resulted 

 in much confusion of stream names and a subsequent error in the geological 

 survey of the region. The creek named Chekok on U.S.G.S Map Iliarana, Alaska, 

 (1:250,000) should be Tomkok Creek. Chekok Creek is unnamed and flows into 

 the extreme eastern end of Chekok Bay. 



In 1959j resulting from another flood, a watershed change involving 

 Canyon Creek and Tomkok Creek occurred. Consequently most of the Canyon 

 Creek flow was diverted to Tomkok Creek. In I962, the flow at the mouth 

 of Canyon Creek was from Wolf Creek ponds. 



