Strange days indeed! If the year wasn’t bizarre enough, we’ve got yellow Aspen showing in not one area or two areas, but in four different areas around the Lake and others have noticed the early Fall advancement in other locations. We don’t know what that means, but stay tuned. We do have a chance for some ThunderBoomers on Monday and Tuesday...
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The Salmon Red Fires in the Trinity Alps has now started to smoke up the valley. Some days it is just a haze and others days it gets a bit heavier. Here lately it has been a light smoke in the air and not to harmful and clears up sometime in the afternoon. It has yet to get like some...
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Death, taxes – and Pacific halibut? That’s what it’s starting to feel like as the wide-open halibut bite continues out of Eureka. Since mid-June, the fishing has been unstoppable. And it’s showing no signs of slowing down. In years past when the salmon were thick, boats would spend an hour or two loading the boats with kings and then head...
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The San Francisco Bay-Delta is among the most intensively studied ecosystems in the world. Numerous long-term fisheries monitoring programs have been conducted there since the late 1950s, but differences in the methods, scope, spatial coverage, and timing of these surveys make it difficult to compare and combine the data collected. As a result, researchers often rely on data from only...
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We were to receive a stocking from Wright’s Rainbow out of Idaho this past week,  but our California Fish and WildLife department nixed the stocking so they could test it for bacteria – so we’re trying to bring you fish, but . . . . . . . . . . Seems fishing around the rockpiles, the rockslide on the back...
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It appears that the “Dog Days of Summer” are still with us. They started early and have come back again. I do not know what to say but it seems as though we are experiencing a change in the weather. We usually have a week or two of HOT (In the 100’s) weather around the middle of July and then...
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