Klamath: Iron Gate Dam releases are 6,240cfs.  Seiad Valley is 11.7ft at 18.1Kcfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 19.9Kcfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 34.7Kcfs. Orleans is 17.3ft. at 45.8Kcfs. Klamath River at Terwer Creek is 27.1ft at 105Kcfs and water temperatures of 45.6 degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 12.6ft at 12.4Kcfs.  Temperatures in the Valley last week were...
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Some time ago, I wrote an article about ‘Lead Ammunition” and the banning of lead to hunt. I tried to warn fishing people that we had better watch out. Well, we have been had!! The day before Trump took office, Obama ordered that fishing tackle with lead be banned from being used on ALL federal lands. California has 26 national parks...
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Following the recommendation of state health agencies, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced today that it will extend the open area of the commercial rock crab fishery northward to Bodega Bay in Sonoma County. On Feb. 10 the commercial rock crab fishery is open from 38° 18′ N. Lat. (Bodega Bay, Sonoma County) south to the California/Mexico border. At the...
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have announced the reopening of recreational crabbing and lifting of commercial crabbing restrictions from the north Jetty of Coos Bay to Heceta Head, north of Florence. Dungeness crab viscera samples taken from the area indicate levels of the marine toxin domoic acid have dropped and remain below...
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Waterfowl season closed in Southern Nevada at the end of January, and at the close of the season, game wardens noticed an alarming increase in mistaken and illegal kills of some types of birds, including ten cormorants, five swans and two pelicans. This week we sit down with Chief Game Warden Tyler Turnipseed to talk about this unusual amount of bird...
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