Sockeye salmon swim up Yard Creek near Malakwa on Sunday, Sept. 2. (Jim Elliot/Eagle Valley News)

Sockeye salmon swim up Yard Creek near Malakwa on Sunday, Sept. 2. (Jim Elliot/Eagle Valley News)

Video: Salmon travel up Yard Creek east of Sicamous

The early run of sockeye salmon is creating a beautiful spectacle near Malakwa

Yard Creek near Malakwa is filling up with the distinctive red bodies of early-run sockeye salmon as they jostle for a good place to spawn.

The beautiful spectacle drew several onlookers who stopped their cars on the side of the road to watch the fish swim upstream.


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