Kenny Priest/For the Times-Standard “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Had Benjamin Franklin lived on the North Coast, he may have edited his famous quote to include king salmon out of Eureka. The season is only a few days old, but Eureka once again looks like the place to be if you want to...
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Setting up a protected area is only the beginning of a long-term conservation effort. An ongoing commitment is needed to ensure that the area is truly protected, and to determine whether the conservation effort is working. A wealth of resources has been developed to monitor and assess the effectiveness of terrestrial and marine protected areas, but few options exist for those wishing to...
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More snow, more snow, sunny, more snow, more snow, more snow, sunny – then snow and more snow today. With the cold temps, we were down to 8 degrees with the wind chill thus the Lake is still empty up front – the run-off just can’t seem to get started.   Called SCE to get the official reason about why they took...
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Our first time up here and we'll definitely be back. We struck out Saturday morning but were successful Saturday and Sunday afternoon using a red devil and a fire tiger spoon. Caught a total of 5 fish over the two days. ...
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Fresh fish & fresh asparagus for dinner tonight! Another great day on the pond! If it had red/gold/yellow it was hammered at 5-12 ft deep today. Had to drop it down just a tad by 8am ...7-8ft was my ticket. Released 4, missed countless strikes. Not monsters but 2 1/2-3lb. Good eats!!

Shad fishing is beginning to take shape on the Sacramento River as evidenced by this outstanding fish caught on the fly by Summer Moore of Redding.  Most of the action is currently in the Colusa and Glenn county area as the shad make the move upstream to spawn.  While I yet to fish for shad I am told the fishing is...
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