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were checked for the day). Effort was considered to be one crew-day, even though two or more gears were used. Fyke nets were sometimes fished for several days without being checked, but crew-days included only the days when the nets were set or checked (e.g. several fyke nets set for three days and two nights were counted as two crew days). RESULTS Within the 16-km study area, nine northern pike were captured and removed in 1995 and one was captured and removed in 1996 (Figure 2). A total of 28 crew-days were expended in 1995 and 13 crew days were expended in 1996. Only one northern pike was observed but not captured. One additional northern pike was removed from the Gunnison River in 1996 during other sampling activities. It was captured in the fishway around the Redlands Diversion Dam. This fish was not included in catch-per-effort calculations, but it was included in distribution and length-frequency analyses. In 1995, sampling success was immediate and dropped off dramatically (Figures 2 and 3). Six northern pike were captured on the first day of sampling--four of those fish were caught in a single 1.1-km-long electrofishing pass immediately below Hartland Diversion. The other two pike were captured in the remaining 4.7 km downstream to Confluence Park. Surprisingly, a second crew doing 'scare and snare' in flooded areas ahead of the electrofishing boat failed to capture any northern pike, even though many of the backwaters sampled by the netting crew were also shacked after -the mouth was blocked. No northern pike were captured an the second day of electrofishing-even though electrofishing effort was doubled over day one--and one pike was collected on the third day of electrofishing. No additional pike were collected until early fall even though considerable effort was expended. in addition to electrofishing, Tyke nets and trammel nets were set in flooded areas throughout the runoff period. Two or more fyke nets were set for at least two nights each week during runoff. A flooded area at RK 86.7 where Burdick (1995) captured two northern pike was regularly sampled. However, the intensive effort failed to capture any additional pike. The two fish caught in September were captured by trammel netting backwaters along the river 6