David Gould, of St. Helena, with a nice Shelter Cove Chinook salmon landed during the June 7-8 season. CDFW determined the 7,000 quota has been met, which closes the remaining July and August dates for the North Coast. Photo courtesy of Jake Mitchell/Sea Hawk Sport Fishing I think we all saw this coming. All you had to do was open up...
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The first day of summer arrived Friday June 20th but it doesn’t feel like summer yet. We are expecting warmer days next week. The temperatures predicted for the next week are more like summer. Summer water flows are expected sometime around the first week of July. Right now, the water flows are getting closer to swimming but are still in the...
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With the two-day salmon season now in the rearview, Eureka anglers have again set their sites on Pacific halibut. And that looks to be a good call. While the rest of the North Coast has been void of halibut catches, the Eureka fleet has had a pretty good run the last couple weeks. They aren’t flying over the rails quite...
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Happy Father’s Day to all the fishermen. It is nice to see several streams above the Iron Gate Dam (removed) having juvenile fish being trapped and counted. If this continues eventually the Upper Klamath will recover and see an anadromous fish run. This is great news and could eventually allow a Salmon fishery for the Klamath River. Now will that help the...
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Two-day season provides a nice boost to local economy The weekend’s two-day salmon season came and went, and the fishing reports weren’t great from our neck of the woods. I’d best define it as inconsistent. Some limits of kings were reported, but there were plenty of low scores and skunks to go around. There weren’t any real hot spots that produced...
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