With very little rain falling throughout our region from January to March, most of us were already preparing for summer. However, the April showers hitting the coast are providing a second winter. These rains will definitely impact the health of future salmon and steelhead runs, which will likely be stronger a few years down the road because of it. First off,...
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Howdy folks!   We’ve been a little quiet on the social media front as of late for a couple of reasons. First, we don’t really have as much information as we’d like, so there hasn’t been much to say. We’re waiting on a lot of key information that will set a lot of things in motion. Like the reservoir forecasts we get from...
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With a strong ocean abundance of Sacramento salmon and the Klamath numbers trending upward, North Coast sport salmon anglers were rewarded with a generous ocean salmon season. The season within the CA KMZ (Klamath Management Zone), which was adopted by the Pacific Fishery Management Council Monday, will open May 1 and run through May 31. It will reopen Aug. 1 and...
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April started off on fire. Take a look ate the Gomes family who took home 13 trout fishing all over the lake with green and yellow PowerBait. Bass were also hitting hard – Alex Mckiah sent in these pictures showing off the some of the bass they caught along the shoreline on the east side of the dam. Alex said they...
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“Keep it simple” is a commonly applied principle of design, but when it comes to ecosystems “keep it complicated” may be the better approach. Ecologists have long hypothesized that simplification of ecosystems reduces the climate resiliency of those ecosystems and the species that live in them. This process has proved challenging to document, but the extensive development, simplification, and degradation...
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