Despite or because of rising waters, an ever increasing mudline in coves and inlets, and increased floating debris throughout the lake, the word on the street is that bass fishing has been pretty good of late. Shasta is still on the rise with the lake level at about 20 feet from full pool, this while over 20,000 cubic feet per second...
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California’s 2019 ocean salmon fishing season should be slightly better than last year’s, according to information presented at this week’s annual Salmon Information Meeting held in Santa Rosa by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). The ocean abundance projections for Sacramento River fall Chinook (SRFC), a main salmon stock harvested in California waters, is estimated at 379,600 adult...
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has recently seen an increased number of confirmed and suspect cases of canine distemper virus (CDV) in wild gray foxes in the Mount Shasta and Scott Valley areas in Siskiyou County. Most of California’s carnivore species are susceptible to CDV, with gray foxes, skunks and other mustelids also being highly susceptible. CDV is...
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Question: I want to take my 16-year-old son fishing and I know there are piers where neither of us need a fishing license. I don’t want to end up with a ticket so can you clearly describe what piers we can fish off of without a having to buy a license? Also, both of us have a basic knowledge of...
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Spring rains, and lots of it, can do wonders for our salmon and steelhead populations. Following a wet spring in 2017, the benefits are starting to roll in. At Wednesday’s annual Ocean salmon Information meeting in Santa Rosa, CDFW suggested 274,222 Klamath River fall Chinook adults are swimming in the ocean. Not a huge number, but still right around the...
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